US Plant Patent PP16703

Ninpur

Lavender plant named ‘Ninpur’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired June 9, 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 47 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

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The record

Patent number: PP16703
Filed: April 23, 2005
Granted: June 20, 2006
Expires: June 9, 2025
Assignee: ROBB JOHN
Inventor: ROBB JOHN

Abstract

A new and distinct cultivar of Lavender plant named ‘Ninpur’, characterized by its compact, upright, somewhat outwardly spreading and mounded plant habit; freely branching habit, dense and bushy plant form; early flowering habit; and dark purple-colored flowers with purple 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 ‘Ninpur’, as illustrated and described.

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