US Plant Patent PP18789

JETHRO TULL

Coreopsis plant named ‘JETHRO TULL’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends December 29, 2026.

No term adjustment or disclaimer is recorded against this patent, so this is the full statutory term — twenty years from the filing date.

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The record

Patent number: PP18789
Filed: December 29, 2006
Granted: May 6, 2008
Expires: December 29, 2026
Assignee: ITSAUL PLANTS LLC
Inventor: SAUL ROBERT MARK

Abstract

A new and distinct cultivar of Coreopsis plant named ‘Jethro Tull’, characterized by its compact, upright, outwardly spreading and mounded plant habit; vigorous growth habit; freely basal branching habit; freely flowering habit; rotate inflorescences with tubular golden yellow-colored ray florets; and strong peduncles that hold the inflorescences above the foliar plane.

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

1. A new and distinct Coreopsis plant named ‘Jethro Tull’ as illustrated and described.

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