US Plant Patent PP12328

Summer Joy Orange

Portulaca plant named ‘Summer Joy Orange’

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 PP12328, the photograph of Summer Joy Orange printed in the patent. — Figure 3 from US Plant Patent PP12328, 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: PP12328
Filed: July 13, 1999
Granted: January 1, 2002
Expires: July 13, 2019
Assignee: SAKATA SEED CORP
Inventor: MATSUKIZONO HIROMI

Abstract

Portulaca ‘Summer Joy Orange’ is a new variety of Portulaca oleracea . This plant has a vigorous, spreading plant growth which produces large, orange flowers having a red 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 plant as shown and described herein.

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