US Plant Patent PP12458

Summer Joy Light Pink

Portulaca plant named ‘Summer Joy Light Pink’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired July 13, 2019. 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 3 of US plant patent PP12458, the photograph of Summer Joy Light Pink printed in the patent. — Figure 3 from US Plant Patent PP12458, 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: PP12458
Filed: July 13, 1999
Granted: March 12, 2002
Expires: July 13, 2019
Assignee: SAKATA SEED CORP
Inventor: MATSUKIZONO HIROMI

Abstract

Portulaca ‘Summer Joy Light Pink’ is a new variety of Portulaca oleracea . This plant has a vigorous, spreading plant growth which produces large, light pink flowers having a pale greenish-yellow center.

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 cultivar of Portulaca as shown and described herein.

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