US Plant Patent PP16532

Rose Quartet

Fuchsia plant named ‘Rose Quartet’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired April 16, 2025. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on February 14, 2025. This patent earned 61 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

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The record

Patent number: PP16532
Filed: February 14, 2005
Granted: May 9, 2006
Expires: April 16, 2025
Assignee: SPANTON CHRISTOPHER JOHN
Inventor: SPANTON CHRISTOPHER JOHN

Abstract

A new cultivar of Fuchsia plant named ‘Rose Quartet’, characterized by compact mounding habit, yellow-grown leaves, gray-red stems, and pink flowers with a quartered corolla and reflexed sepals. In combination these traits set ‘Rose Quartet’ apart from all other existing varieties of Fuchsia known to the inventor.

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 Fuchsia plant named ‘Rose Quartet’ as described and illustrated.

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