US Plant Patent PP16242
Balserlav
Osteospermum plant named ‘Balserlav’
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired March 30, 2025. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on December 27, 2024. This patent earned 93 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

The record
- Patent number
- PP16242
- Filed
- December 27, 2004
- Granted
- February 7, 2006
- Expires
- March 30, 2025
- Assignee
- SCHMUELLING WILHELM FA
- Inventor
- SCHMULLING MARKUS
Abstract
A new and distinct cultivar of Osteospermum plant named ‘Balserlav’ characterized by its single inflorescence form with lavender-colored ray florets, violet-blue-colored disc florets, dark green-colored foliage, freely branching character, and compact, upright, and mounded growth habit.
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 Osteospermum plant named ‘Balserlav’, substantially as herein shown and described.
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