US Plant Patent PP15935

Summer Sorbet

Caryopteris plant named ‘Summer Sorbet’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired July 25, 2024. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on June 28, 2024. This patent earned 27 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

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The record

Patent number: PP15935
Filed: June 28, 2004
Granted: August 30, 2005
Expires: July 25, 2024
Assignee: WITTEMAN & CO
Inventor: VAN DELFT PETER

Abstract

A new and distinct cultivar of Caryopteris plant named ‘Summer Sorbet’, characterized by its compact and mounded plant habit; freely branching growth habit; and green and yellow variegated leaves.

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 Caryopteris plant named ‘Summer Sorbet’, as illustrated and described.

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