US Plant Patent PP16732

Balsunlavim

Petunia plant named ‘Balsunlavim’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired March 16, 2025. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on December 27, 2024. This patent earned 79 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP16732, the photograph of Balsunlavim printed in the patent. — Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP16732, 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: PP16732
Filed: December 27, 2004
Granted: June 27, 2006
Expires: March 16, 2025
Assignee: BALL HORTICULTURAL CO
Inventor: STROPE KERRY M

Abstract

A new and distinct Petunia plant named ‘Balsunlavim’ characterized by its single type purple-colored flowers, dark green-colored foliage, and vigorous, mounded, and trailing growth habit.

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 Petunia plant named ‘Balsunlavim’, substantially as herein shown and described.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP16732 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.