US Plant Patent PP30073
Raspberry Ruffles
Dianthus plant named ‘Raspberry Ruffles’
UNDER PATENT
Still under patent. Protection ends February 1, 2038.
No term adjustment or disclaimer is recorded against this patent, so this is the full statutory term — twenty years from the filing date.

The record
- Patent number
- PP30073
- Filed
- February 1, 2018
- Granted
- January 8, 2019
- Expires
- February 1, 2038
- Assignee
- WALTERS GARDENS INC, HANSEN HANS A
- Inventor
- HANSEN HANS A
Abstract
A new and unique plant cultivar of perennial carnation or pinks, Dianthus plant named ‘Raspberry Ruffles’ with numerous, large, fully-double, lightly-fragrant flowers producing a rounded full face. Individual flowers can have about 114 petals with irregularly toothed margins and raspberry coloration toward the middle and light pink to white margins. The numerous stems cover the top of the plant with flowers for about six weeks. The habit is compact with long, thin, blue-green foliage.
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 Dianthus plant named ‘Raspberry Ruffles’ essentially as herein described and illustrated.
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