US Plant Patent PP15814

Whip Sal

Petunia plant named ‘Whip Sal’

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 April 5, 2024. This patent earned 76 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

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The record

Patent number: PP15814
Filed: April 5, 2004
Granted: June 28, 2005
Expires: June 20, 2024
Assignee: GOLDSMITH SEEDS INC
Inventor: HANES MITCHELL

Abstract

A new and distinct cultivar of Petunia plant named ‘Whip Sal’, characterized by its low trailing, outwardly spreading and mounded plant habit; freely branching habit; freely flowering habit; single flowers that are pink in color; and good garden performance.

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 ‘Whip Sal’, as illustrated and described.

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