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US Plant Patent PP15658

Pink Petticoats

Verbascum plant named ‘Pink Petticoats’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired November 4, 2023. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on September 29, 2023. This patent earned 36 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP15658, the photograph of Pink Petticoats printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP15658, 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
PP15658
Filed
September 29, 2003
Granted
March 15, 2005
Expires
November 4, 2023
Inventor
RICHARDS RODNEY

Abstract

Verbascum ‘Pink Petticoats’ is a new and distinct cultivar of Mullein plant with large shell pink flowers tightly clustered on racemes to 120 cm tall and effective as cut flower or for six weeks as a landscape or potted plant.

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 the specified Mullein plant, Verbascum ‘Pink Petticoats’, essentially as herein described and illustrated, with large shell pink flowers tightly clustered on racemes to 120 cm tall and effective as cut flower or for six weeks as a landscape or potted plant.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP15658 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.