US Plant Patent PP11971
Trumpet Purple
Variety of petunia named ‘Trumpet Purple’
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired October 9, 2018. 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.
The record
- Patent number
- PP11971
- Filed
- October 9, 1998
- Granted
- July 3, 2001
- Expires
- October 9, 2018
- Assignee
- JOHN BODGER & SONS CO
- Inventor
- HEFFNER MIKE
Abstract
The claimed cultivar brings a new color to the Trumpet series of Petunias and is characterized by a purple colored flower accented in its center with dark purple veining, over medium green foliage. As with all Trumpet Petunias, this cultivar exhibits early flowering with superior branching so that the plant may also be used in a hanging pot.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. A new and distinct variety of Petunia plant, substantially as shown and described.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP11971 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.