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US Plant Patent PP15582

Samuel Oliphant

Sedum plant named ‘Samuel Oliphant’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired December 29, 2023. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on October 10, 2023. This patent earned 80 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP15582, the photograph of Samuel Oliphant printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP15582, 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
PP15582
Filed
October 10, 2003
Granted
February 22, 2005
Expires
December 29, 2023
Assignee
CASERTANO JOHN L
Inventor
CASERTANO JOHN L

Abstract

Sedum ‘Samuel Oliphant’ is a new and distinct cultivar of Stonecrop plant having gray-green leaves with creamy-yellow margins and carmine tips, and long lasting pinkish flowers valuable as a landscaping specimen, potted plant, or cut flower.

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

1. I claim the new and distinct variety of Stonecrop plant, Sedum spectabile ‘Samuel Oliphant’, essentially as herein described and illustrated, having gray-green leaves with creamy-yellow margins and carmine tips, and long lasting pinkish flowers valuable as a landscaping specimen, plotted plant, or cut flower.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP15582 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.