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US Plant Patent PP25508

Royal Purple

Baptisia plant named ‘Royal Purple’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends December 12, 2033.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on June 28, 2033. This patent earned 167 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP25508, the photograph of Royal Purple printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP25508, 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
PP25508
Filed
June 28, 2013
Granted
May 5, 2015
Expires
December 12, 2033
Assignee
AULT JAMES ROBERT, CHICAGO LAND GROWS INC
Inventor
AULT JAMES ROBERT

Abstract

A new cultivar of Baptisia , ‘Royal Purple’ that is characterized by its racemes of flowers that are deep violet-blue in color, its dense vase-shaped plant habit when young and a dense broadly rounded plant habit and slightly smaller in size when mature, stipules at the base of the peduncle that are small in size, its inflorescences in which about 75% arises above the foliage and its ability to be readily propagated using stem shoot tip cuttings.

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

It is claimed: 1. A new and distinct cultivar of Baptisia plant named ‘Royal Purple’ as herein illustrated and described.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP25508 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.