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US Plant Patent PP16297

Sunpatiki

Petunia plant named ‘Sunpatiki’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired June 20, 2024. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on March 25, 2024. This patent earned 87 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP16297, the photograph of Sunpatiki printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP16297, 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
PP16297
Filed
March 25, 2004
Granted
February 28, 2006
Expires
June 20, 2024
Inventor
IWAKI KAZUNARI; ISHIHARA TAKURO; MIYANO SHINYA

Abstract

Disclosed herein is a new and distinct variety of Petunia plant having a decumbent habit and short stems. The Petunia plant has abundant branching, and a great profusion of blooms, the whole plant remaining in bloom for a considerable period of time. The flowers are single and small, the petals having pale yellow-green with brilliant yellow-green and brilliant greenish-yellow veins. The inside color of the corolla throat is brilliant greenish-yellow and the outside of the corolla tube is light yellow-green. The plant exhibits high resistance to rain, heat, cold and disease.

Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.

1. A new and distinct variety of Petunia plant named ‘Sunpatiki’, substantially as herein illustrated and described.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP16297 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.