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US Plant Patent PP26343

Pink Dawn

Salvia plant named ‘Pink Dawn’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends August 21, 2034.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on April 2, 2034. This patent earned 141 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP26343, the photograph of Pink Dawn printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP26343, 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
PP26343
Filed
April 2, 2014
Granted
January 19, 2016
Expires
August 21, 2034
Assignee
WALTERS GARDENS INC, HANSEN HANS A
Inventor
HANSEN HANS A

Abstract

The new and distinct cultivar of perennial Salvia plant named ‘Pink Dawn’ characterized by its large cotton candy-colored flowers densely arranged in verticils. The new plant has a compact habit with stiff, upright, heavily-branched stems showing strong greyed-purple tinting and persistent calyxes of similar greyed-purple tinting, a strong vigorous growth rate and gray-green foliage.

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

It is claimed: 1. The new and distinct perennial Salvia plant named ‘Pink Dawn’ as herein described and illustrated useful for landscaping as a specimen plant, en masse or as a cut flower.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP26343 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.