US Plant Patent PP15555

Walgaupf

Gaura plant named ‘Walgaupf’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired November 24, 2023. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on June 6, 2023. This patent earned 171 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP15555, the photograph of Walgaupf printed in the patent. — Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP15555, 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: PP15555
Filed: June 6, 2003
Granted: February 15, 2005
Expires: November 24, 2023
Inventor: TRISTRAM DAVID

Abstract

A new cultivar of Gaura plant named ‘Walgaupf’ a perennial plant characterized by red young foliage and green mature foliage, pink flowers, dense floriferous blooming and upright habit. In combination these traits set ‘Walgaupf’ apart from all other existing varieties of Gaura 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 Gaura plant named ‘Walfaupf’ as described and illustrated.

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