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US Plant Patent PP17699

Sunny Marina

Osteospermum plant named ‘Sunny Marina’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired December 26, 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 91 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP17699, the photograph of Sunny Marina printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP17699, 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
PP17699
Filed
September 26, 2005
Granted
May 8, 2007
Expires
December 26, 2025
Assignee
SUNNY OSTEOSPERMUM APS
Inventor
LARSEN BJARNE NYHOLM

Abstract

A new distinct cultivar of Osteospermum plant named ‘Sunny Marina’, characterized by its single, daisy type composite inflorescenses with elliptic ray florets and tubular disc florets; violet to light purple disc florets and light purple ray florets with gray-orange undersides; dark green to yellow-green, small and narrow leaves; ovate to spatulate leaves with 6-8 small, acute lobes; and short peduncles and compact bushy plant shape.

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 Marina’, as illustrated and described herein.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP17699 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.