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US Plant Patent PP13600

Sleeping Beauty

Portulaca plant named ‘Sleeping Beauty’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired December 14, 2021. 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 PP13600, the photograph of Sleeping Beauty printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP13600, 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
PP13600
Filed
December 14, 2001
Granted
February 25, 2003
Expires
December 14, 2021
Inventor
STROET THEODORUS B J

Abstract

A new and distinct cultivar of Portulaca plant named ‘Sleeping Beauty’, characterized by its outwardly spreading and trailing plant habit; freely branching growth habit; relatively rapid growth rate; double flower form; and yellow-colored flowers.

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

It is claimed: 1. A new and distinct cultivar of Portulaca plant named ‘Sleeping Beauty’, as illustrated and described.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP13600 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.