US Plant Patent PP14683

Baltinblus

Gaura plant named ‘Baltinblus’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired January 25, 2023. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on December 26, 2022. This patent earned 30 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP14683, the photograph of Baltinblus printed in the patent. — Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP14683, 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: PP14683
Filed: December 26, 2002
Granted: April 6, 2004
Expires: January 25, 2023
Assignee: BALL HORTICULTURAL CO
Inventor: KNOSHER LYNNE

Abstract

A new and distinct Gaura plant named ‘Baltinblus’, characterized by its blush pink flowers, upright slightly spreading growth habit, and dark green foliage.

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

I claim: 1. A new and distinct Gaura lindheimeri plant named ‘Baltinblus’ substantially as herein shown and described, which: (a) exhibits blush pink colored flowers, (b) forms dark green foliage, and (c) exhibits an upright and slightly spreading growth habit.

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