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US Plant Patent PP6960

Ralph Shugert

Periwinkle plant named Ralph Shugert

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired July 11, 2008. 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
PP6960
Filed
July 11, 1988
Granted
August 1, 1989
Expires
July 11, 2008

Abstract

A lesser periwinkle plant named Ralph Shugert, characterized by its glossy, reflexed foliage which is deep green and surrounded by thin white margins, and its large, deep violet, five-parted flowers.

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 lesser periwinkle plant named Ralph Shugert, as described and illustrated.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6960 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.