US Plant Patent PP9342
Revolution Violet
Petunia plant named `Revolution Violet`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired July 13, 2013. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on January 6, 2015, but this patent ends 542 days earlier — a terminal disclaimer gives term back. A source that calculates twenty years from filing would tell you this plant is still protected when it is already free.
The record
- Patent number
- PP9342
- Filed
- January 6, 1995
- Granted
- October 24, 1995
- Expires
- July 13, 2013
- Assignee
- SUNTORY LTD, KEISEI ROSE NURSERIES INC
- Inventor
- SAKAZAKI USHIO; TAMURA YUJI; HIRABAYASHI HIROSHI
Abstract
Disclosed herein is a decumbent type petunia plant having a long stem. The plant has abundant branching and a great profusion of blooms, and the whole bush remains in bloom for a long period of time. The flowers are single and small, and the petals have a vivid purple color. The plant is highly resistant to rain, drought, and heat.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
We claim: 1. A new and distinct variety of petunia plant, substantially as herein illustrated and described, characterized particularly as to novelty by (A) being a decumbent habit plant having long stems, (B) an abundant branching and a great profusion of blooms, the whole bush remaining in bloom for a considerable period of time, (C) flowers that are single and small, the petals having a vivid purple color, and (D) a high resistance to rain, drought, and heat.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP9342 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.