US Plant Patent PP16685

Anouk

Lavender plant named ‘Anouk’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired June 23, 2025. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on April 23, 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: PP16685
Filed: April 23, 2005
Granted: June 20, 2006
Expires: June 23, 2025
Assignee: KONING SMIT HOLDING N V
Inventor: KONING LAMMERT

Abstract

A new and distinct cultivar of Lavender plant named ‘Anouk’, characterized by its compact, upright, somewhat outwardly spreading and mounded plant habit; freely branching habit; dense and bushy plant form; greyed green-colored foliage; and large purple violet-colored flowers with violet-colored terminal flower bracts.

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 Lavender plant named ‘Anouk’, as illustrated and described.

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