US Plant Patent PP18416

Mootum

Azelea plant named ‘Mootum’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired December 26, 2025. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on December 8, 2025. This patent earned 18 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP18416, the photograph of Mootum printed in the patent. — Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP18416, 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: PP18416
Filed: December 8, 2005
Granted: January 15, 2008
Expires: December 26, 2025
Assignee: BERRY JAMES BRYAN
Inventor: BERRY JAMES BRYAN

Abstract

A new and distinct variety of Azalea found as a mutant sport of Azalea ‘Conleo’. The new variety possesses a unique blooming time and is superior in development. An upright, dense, globose shaped plant with attractive, ruffled, large semi-double white flowers.

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

1. A new and unique variety of Azalea plant named ‘Mootum’ as herein shown and described.

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