US Plant Patent PP16627

Balpinperi

Felicia plant named ‘Balpinperi’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired March 23, 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 96 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

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The record

Patent number: PP16627
Filed: December 17, 2004
Granted: June 13, 2006
Expires: March 23, 2025
Assignee: BALL HORTICULTURAL CO
Inventor: TALMADGE PAUL A

Abstract

A new and distinct cultivar of Felicia plant named ‘Balpinperi’ characterized by its single inflorescence form with blue-colored ray florets, yellow-colored disc florets, freely branching character, dark green-colored foliage, bushy type growth habit, and earliness to flower.

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 Felicia plant named ‘Balpinperi’, substantially as herein shown and described.

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