US Plant Patent PP10596
Brightside
Osteospermum plant named `Brightside`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired September 10, 2016. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
No term adjustment or disclaimer is recorded against this patent, so this is the full statutory term — twenty years from the filing date.
The record
- Patent number
- PP10596
- Filed
- September 10, 1996
- Granted
- September 8, 1998
- Expires
- September 10, 2016
- Assignee
- SAKATA SEED AMERICA INC
- Inventor
- KANNO MASAO
Abstract
The present invention relates to a new and distinct variety of the Compositae family, Osteospermum fruticosum (L.) Norl., common name Cape Daisy, denominated `Brightside.` The new variety is distinguished from its parents and all other members of the genera known to the inventor by: the ability of its flower heads to remain open in low light conditions, its distinctive coloring -- the ray florets being pure white and the disk florets being violet blue; its strong peduncles; and its dwarf, vigorous, broad-spreading growth habit.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. A new and distinct hybrid plant variety of the Compositae family, Osteospermum fruticosum (L.) Norl., common commercial name Cape Daisy, named `Brightside` substantially as herein shown and described.
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