US Plant Patent PP23578
Amistad
Salvia plant named ‘Amistad’
UNDER PATENT
Still under patent. Protection ends November 30, 2031.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on August 8, 2031. This patent earned 114 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

The record
- Patent number
- PP23578
- Filed
- August 8, 2011
- Granted
- April 30, 2013
- Expires
- November 30, 2031
- Assignee
- RICHARDS RODNEY W, URIA ROLANDO ANIBAL
- Inventor
- RICHARDS RODNEY W; URIA ROLANDO ANIBAL
Abstract
A new cultivar of hybrid Salvia , ‘Amistad’ characterized by its flowers that are mauve purple in color, its blooms that commences early in the season, its long blooming habit with new shoots producing flowers throughout the summer, its sterility, and its relatively short height, and its growth habit that lacks spreading roots.
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 Salvia plant named ‘Amistad’ as herein illustrated and described.
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