US Plant Patent PP19971

Starlite

Baptisia plant named ‘Starlite’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends November 13, 2027.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on November 2, 2027. This patent earned 11 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

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The record

Patent number: PP19971
Filed: November 2, 2007
Granted: April 28, 2009
Expires: November 13, 2027
Assignee: CHICAGOLAND GROWS INC
Inventor: AULT JAMES R

Abstract

A new cultivar of interspecific Baptisia, ‘Starlite’, characterized by its early blooming bicolor flowers that are violet-purple with a yellow keel held, its densely flowered inflorescences, its initially upright then cascading plant habit, its vigorous growth habit, and its hardiness in U.S.D.A. Zones 4 to 8.

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 Baptisia plant named ‘Starlite’ as herein illustrated and described.

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