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US Plant Patent PP16331

Sunny Stephanie

Osteospermum plant named ‘Sunny Stephanie’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired June 25, 2024. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on March 1, 2024. This patent earned 116 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP16331, the photograph of Sunny Stephanie printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP16331, 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
PP16331
Filed
March 1, 2004
Granted
March 14, 2006
Expires
June 25, 2024
Assignee
SUNNY GRONNEGYDEN APS
Inventor
LARSEN BJARNE N

Abstract

A new distinct cultivar of Osteospermum plant named ‘Sunny Stephanie’, characterized by purple ray floret color from RHS N78A with stripes of RHS N77B purple to RHS 59C, red-purple, with stripes of RHS N57B red-purple; dense and bushy plant form, mainly due to more upright stems; moderately vigorous growth habit, less need for chemical growth retardation; and high number of inflorescences per plant.

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 Stephanie’, as illustrated and described herein.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP16331 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.