US Plant Patent PP16549

Moulin Rouge

Astrantia plant named ‘Moulin Rouge’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired May 27, 2025. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on February 14, 2025. This patent earned 102 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP16549, the photograph of Moulin Rouge printed in the patent. — Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP16549, 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: PP16549
Filed: February 14, 2005
Granted: May 16, 2006
Expires: May 27, 2025
Assignee: VAN NOORT MARCO
Inventor: VAN NOORT MARCO

Abstract

A new cultivar or Astrantia ‘Moulin Rouge’ characterized by its large dark red-purple inflorescences, peduncles, and pedicels and its long bloom season. ‘Moulin Rouge’ is a repeat bloomer with three heavy flushes of bloom from early June to mid September.

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

1. A new and distinct cultivar of Astrantia plant named ‘Moulin Rouge’ as herein illustrated and described.

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