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US Plant Patent PP16163

Haruri

Ionocidium orchid plant named ‘Haruri’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired September 12, 2024. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on August 26, 2024. This patent earned 17 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP16163, the photograph of Haruri printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP16163, 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
PP16163
Filed
August 26, 2004
Granted
December 13, 2005
Expires
September 12, 2024
Assignee
SAPPORO BREWERIES
Inventor
KANETSUNA HIDEYUKI

Abstract

A new and distinct Ionocidium orchid plant named ‘Haruri’ particularly characterized by a labellum that changes color from yellow to purple during the flowering period. Its horticultural traits further include highly irregular flowering, high productivity rate, and rapid growth in addition to economical propagation via tissue culture and vegetative division.

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 Ionocidium orchid plant named ‘Haruri’, as illustrated and described.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP16163 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.