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US Plant Patent PP15942

California Gold

Gazania plant named ‘California Gold’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired July 21, 2024. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on June 1, 2024. This patent earned 50 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP15942, the photograph of California Gold printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP15942, 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
PP15942
Filed
June 1, 2004
Granted
September 6, 2005
Expires
July 21, 2024
Assignee
SALVADOR DE LA TORRE
Inventor
DE LA TORRE JOSE JAIME

Abstract

A new and distinct cultivar of Gazania named ‘California Gold’, characterized by its compact, low-growing and bushy growth habit; upright, outwardly spreading and rounded plant form; freely-flowering habit; large fully inflorescences with yellow and orange bi-colored ray florets; and relatively less susceptible to fungal pathogens common to Gazanias .

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 Gazania named ‘California Gold’, as illustrated and described.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP15942 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.