US Plant Patent PP15215
Sunsarupin
Salvia plant named ‘Sunsarupin’
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired December 7, 2023. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on November 18, 2023. This patent earned 19 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

The record
- Patent number
- PP15215
- Filed
- November 18, 2003
- Granted
- October 12, 2004
- Expires
- December 7, 2023
- Assignee
- SUNTORY FLOWERS LMTD
- Inventor
- YOMO YASUNORI; ISHIHARA TAKURO
Abstract
A new and distinct cultivar of Salvia plant named ‘Sunsarupin’, characterized by its upright and relatively compact plant habit; freely basal branching habit; dense and bushy plant form; freely flowering habit; dark pink-colored flowers; and tolerance to high and low temperatures.
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 ‘Sunsarupin’, as illustrated and described.
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