US Plant Patent PP15491
Osoutis
Osteospermum plant named ‘Osoutis’
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired March 26, 2023. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on January 15, 2023. This patent earned 70 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

The record
- Patent number
- PP15491
- Filed
- January 15, 2003
- Granted
- January 25, 2005
- Expires
- March 26, 2023
- Assignee
- SYNGENTA SEEDS BV
- Inventor
- OUD JOHANNES SIMON NICOLAAS
Abstract
A new Osteospermum plant particularly distinguished by its very compact round plant habit, early flowering with purple colored ray florets and purple colored disc florets.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
1. A new and distinct variety of Osteospermum plant, substantially as illustrated and described herein.
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