US Plant Patent PP18052

Whip Bule

Petunia plant named ‘Whip Bule’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired March 7, 2026. 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.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP18052, the photograph of Whip Bule printed in the patent. — Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP18052, 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: PP18052
Filed: March 7, 2006
Granted: September 18, 2007
Expires: March 7, 2026
Assignee: GOLDSMITH SEEDS INC
Inventor: HANES MITCHELL E

Abstract

A new petunia plant particularly distinguished by medium, deep-blue flowers, medium-green foliage with elliptical to ovate leaves, a medium to tall, round, bushy, well-branched, moderately tight plant habit with moderately vigorous growth, an initially spreading to prostrate to later trailing plant habit with an early and continuous flowering response, is disclosed.

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 as shown and described herein.

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