US Plant Patent PP21329
Triple Play
Phlox plant named ‘Triple Play’
UNDER PATENT
Still under patent. Protection ends September 16, 2029.
No term adjustment or disclaimer is recorded against this patent, so this is the full statutory term — twenty years from the filing date.

The record
- Patent number
- PP21329
- Filed
- September 16, 2009
- Granted
- September 28, 2010
- Expires
- September 16, 2029
- Assignee
- SACKS JANET L, SCHAFER MARTIN C
- Inventor
- SACKS JANET L; SCHAFER MARTIN C
Abstract
A new cultivar of Phlox , ‘Triple Play’, characterized by its flowers that are pink in color with a darker pink eye zone, its variegated foliage with green centers and a creamy white margins that are flushed with pink when grown under cool temperatures (spring and autumn), its short stature, and its cold hardiness at least to U.S.D.A. Zone 5.
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 Phlox plant named ‘Triple Play’ as herein illustrated and described.
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