US Plant Patent PP16665

Balwhisaptim

Diascia plant named ‘Balwhisaptim’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired March 30, 2025. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on December 17, 2024. This patent earned 103 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP16665, the photograph of Balwhisaptim printed in the patent. — Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP16665, 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: PP16665
Filed: December 17, 2004
Granted: June 20, 2006
Expires: March 30, 2025
Assignee: BALL HORTICULTURAL CO
Inventor: TALMADGE PAUL A

Abstract

A new and distinct Diascia plant named ‘Balwhisaptim’ characterized by its apricot-colored flowers, medium green-colored foliage, and vigorous, mounded, and spreading growth habit.

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 Interspecific Diascia plant named ‘Balwhisaptim’, substantially as herein shown and described.

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