US Plant Patent PP16587
Paranoia
Echinacea plant named ‘Paranoia’
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired November 7, 2024. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on July 30, 2024. This patent earned 100 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

The record
- Patent number
- PP16587
- Filed
- July 30, 2004
- Granted
- May 30, 2006
- Expires
- November 7, 2024
- Assignee
- AVENT TONY, SAUL RICHARD
- Inventor
- AVENT TONY; SAUL RICHARD
Abstract
A new and distinct cultivar of Echinacea plant named ‘Paranoia’, characterized by its short, compact plant habit and buttery yellow reflexed ray flowers arranged around a coppery-brown cone of many disc florets.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
1. A new and distinct variety of Echinacea plant named ‘Paranoia’ as described and illustrated herein.
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