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US Plant Patent PP17419

Sunny Felix

Osteospermum plant named ‘Sunny Felix’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired October 10, 2025. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on September 26, 2025. This patent earned 14 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP17419, the photograph of Sunny Felix printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP17419, reproduced as printed. Photographs in a plant patent are taken by the applicant. Reproduction of the patent document is permitted; the image is shown whole and uncropped for that reason.

The record

Patent number
PP17419
Filed
September 26, 2005
Granted
February 20, 2007
Expires
October 10, 2025
Assignee
SUNNY OSTEOSPERMUM APS
Inventor
LARSEN BJARNE NYHOLM

Abstract

A new distinct cultivar of Osteospermum plant named ‘Sunny Felix’, characterized by its white ray florets with a small, but distinct violet-blue spot, violet-blue to gray-purple disc florets, dark green foliage, long ray florets measuring about 37 mm in length, and more leaves and shorter petioles than the typical Osteospermum variety.

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 ‘Sunny Felix’, as illustrated and described herein.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP17419 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.