US Plant Patent PP10086
Purple Sunspot
Petunia plant named `Purple Sunspot`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired July 15, 2016. 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
- PP10086
- Filed
- July 15, 1996
- Granted
- October 28, 1997
- Expires
- July 15, 2016
- Inventor
- ROTHER REINHARD W
Abstract
A distinct cultivar of Petunia plant named `Purple Sunspot`, characterized by its dark purple flowers that face upwards; moderate to vigorous growth habit and rapid growth rate; spreading and decumbent plant habit; freely branching habit; early flowering; very floriferous with numerous flowers per plant; and tolerance to rain, drought and temperature extremes.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
It is claimed: 1. A new and distinct cultivar of Petunia plant named `Purple Sunspot`, as illustrated and described.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP10086 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.