US Plant Patent PP15954
Sumsan 01
Variety of Sanvitalia plant named ‘Sumsan 01’
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired June 19, 2023. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on March 3, 2023. This patent earned 108 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

The record
- Patent number
- PP15954
- Filed
- March 3, 2003
- Granted
- September 13, 2005
- Expires
- June 19, 2023
- Assignee
- GRUNEWALD VEREDLINGS B V
- Inventor
- SCHRAEDER RALF
Abstract
A new and distinct early flowering Sanvitalia plant with bright yellow-orange colored flowers.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
1. A new and distinct variety of Sanvitalia plant substantially as shown and described.
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