US Plant Patent PP12554

Snowstorm

Agapanthus plant named ‘Snowstorm’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired December 8, 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.

Figure 3 of US plant patent PP12554, the photograph of Snowstorm printed in the patent. — Figure 3 from US Plant Patent PP12554, 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: PP12554
Filed: December 8, 1998
Granted: April 16, 2002
Expires: December 8, 2018
Assignee: WILKEN STEPHEN J M
Inventor: ROTHER REINHARD W

Abstract

A new and distinct cultivar of agapanthus named ‘Snowstorm’ having a higher number of umbels per inflorescence, dense foliage of very short narrow leaves compared with other cultivars of the same genus Agapanthus praecox orientalis ‘Albus’.

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 agapanthus plant named ‘Snowstorm’, as illustrated and described.

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