US Plant Patent PP12815

Beautiful Trust

Campanula takesimana plant named ‘Beautiful Trust’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired February 25, 2021. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on February 16, 2021. This patent earned 9 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP12815, the photograph of Beautiful Trust printed in the patent. — Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP12815, 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: PP12815
Filed: February 16, 2001
Granted: July 30, 2002
Expires: February 25, 2021
Assignee: BURPHE HERONSWOOD INC
Inventor: HINKLEY DANIEL J

Abstract

A new and distinct cultivated variety of Campanula takesimana plant characterized by a unique combination of stellate, white blooms, with ligulate petals, and rhomboidal to elliptical, glossy, green foliage.

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

I claim: 1. A new and distinct cultivated variety of Campanula takesimana plant substantially as shown and described, characterized by a unique combination of stellate, white blooms, with ligulate

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