US Plant Patent PP12812
Kakegawa AU4
Osteospermum plant named ‘Kakegawa AU4’
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired September 8, 2020. 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
- PP12812
- Filed
- September 8, 2000
- Granted
- July 30, 2002
- Expires
- September 8, 2020
- Assignee
- SAKATA SEED CORP
- Inventor
- KANNO MASAO
Abstract
The present invention relates to a new and distinct variety of Osteospermum fruticosum (L.) Norl plant named ‘Kakegawa AU4’. This new plant has a suitable form for pot culture and also possesses large yellow flowers that stay open into the evening hours or under low light conditions.
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 plant of the Compositae family, Osteospermum fruticosum (L.) Norl., herein referred to by the name ‘Kakegawa AU4’, as illustrated and described.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP12812 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.