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US Plant Patent PP27637

Sunsplash

Coreopsis plant named ‘Sunsplash’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends April 10, 2035.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on July 16, 2034. This patent earned 268 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP27637, the photograph of Sunsplash printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP27637, 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
PP27637
Filed
July 16, 2014
Granted
January 31, 2017
Expires
April 10, 2035
Assignee
PROBST DARRELL R
Inventor
PROBST DARRELL R

Abstract

A new cultivar of hybrid Coreopsis plant named ‘Sunsplash’ that is characterized by its compact plant habit reaching about 30 cm in height and 50 cm in spread, its prolific blooming habit from mid June until frost in Connecticut, its large inflorescences with ray florets that are bright red in color with gold streaks near the apex with the coloration retained throughout the growing season, and its relatively sterile inflorescences when grown under typical garden conditions and lack the need for deadheading of spent blooms for continuous bloom.

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 Coreopsis plant named ‘Sunsplash’ as herein illustrated and described.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP27637 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.