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US Plant Patent PP25479

Sunny Morning

Baptisia plant named ‘Sunny Morning’

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 PP25479, the photograph of Sunny Morning printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP25479, 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
PP25479
Filed
June 28, 2013
Granted
April 28, 2015
Expires
December 12, 2033
Assignee
AULT JAMES ROBERT, CHICAGO LAND GROWS INC
Inventor
AULT JAMES ROBERT

Abstract

A new cultivar of interspecific Baptisia ‘Sunny Morning’, that is characterized by its racemes of flowers that are vibrant lemon yellow with the color retained throughout bloom, its abundance of stems that are charcoal gray in spring, its early bloom season, its dense, spreading mounded plant habit, its inflorescences that are held above the foliage, its rare fruit set, and its ability to be readily propagated from 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 ‘Sunny Morning’ as herein illustrated and described.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP25479 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.