US Plant Patent PP16563

BCA 3-21

Artichoke plant named ‘BCA 3-21’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired April 3, 2023. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on February 20, 2023. This patent earned 42 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP16563, the photograph of BCA 3-21 printed in the patent. — Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP16563, reproduced as printed. Photographs in a plant patent are taken by the applicant. Reproduction of the patent document is permitted; the image is shown whole and uncropped for that reason.

The record

Patent number: PP16563
Filed: February 20, 2003
Granted: May 23, 2006
Expires: April 3, 2023
Assignee: CHAHBANDAR MEDHAT
Inventor: CHAHBANDAR MEDHAT

Abstract

A new and distinct cultivar of Artichoke plant named ‘BCA 3-21’ characterized by more compact shape than its parent, Camus. It has more daughter plants and shoots than Camus. Its bract coloration is distinctive with a violet or purple tip on a light green base.

Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.

1. The new distinct variety of artichoke plant substantially as shown and described, characterized particularly as to novelty by the characteristics listed above.

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