US Plant Patent PP9322
Revolution Bluevein
Petunia plant `Revolution Bluevein`
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
- PP9322
- Filed
- January 6, 1995
- Granted
- October 10, 1995
- Expires
- July 13, 2013
- Assignee
- SUNTORY LTD
- Inventor
- TACHIBANA RYUICHI; TAMURA YUJI; SAKAZAKI USHIO
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, are bi-color, and have a vein pattern. The plant is highly resistant to rain, drought, and heat and disease.
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 have bi-color with vein pattern and the ground color is very pale purple and the pattern color is moderate purple and bottom throat inside portion of a vivid purple color, and (D) a high resistance to rain, drought, heat and disease.
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