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US Plant Patent PP25926

Sandstorm

Baptisia plant named ‘Sandstorm’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends May 2, 2034.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on March 5, 2034. This patent earned 58 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP25926, the photograph of Sandstorm printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP25926, 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
PP25926
Filed
March 5, 2014
Granted
September 22, 2015
Expires
May 2, 2034
Inventor
AULT JAMES ROBERT

Abstract

A new cultivar of interspecific Baptisia, ‘Sandstorm’, that is characterized by its distinctly vase-shaped plant habit with strongly upright stems during anthesis that expand into a broad rounded mound at maximum vegetative growth, its flowers that are bicolored; light yellow-green and suffused with medium to dark violet with lateral petals that are distinctly bicolored with yellow on the lower portion and yellow suffused with medium to dark violet on the upper portion, and its flowers that are uniform, densely borne, and arranged radially on the inflorescences.

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 ‘Sandstorm’ as herein illustrated and described.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP25926 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.