US Plant Patent PP13950

Diastis

Diascia plant named ‘Diastis’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired January 7, 2022. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

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

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP13950, the photograph of Diastis printed in the patent. — Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP13950, 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: PP13950
Filed: January 7, 2002
Granted: July 8, 2003
Expires: January 7, 2022
Assignee: SYNGENTA SEED B V
Inventor: STEMKENS HENRICUS G W

Abstract

A new Diascia plant particularly distinguished by its large coral flower, early flowering, and a semi-erect habit that becomes spreading as plant develops.

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

What is claimed is: 1. A new and distinct variety of Diascia plant, substantially as herein illustrated and described, characterized particularly as to novelty by coral flowers, which appear earlier on the plant, which produces no seeds, and has a growing habit that is first semi-erect but later spreading and hanging.

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