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US Plant Patent PP34229

Dressed to Impress

Agave plant named ‘Dressed to Impress’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends April 1, 2041.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on January 19, 2041. This patent earned 72 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP34229, the photograph of Dressed to Impress printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP34229, 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
PP34229
Filed
January 19, 2021
Granted
May 10, 2022
Expires
April 1, 2041
Assignee
WALTERS GARDENS INC, HANSEN HANS A
Inventor
HANSEN HANS A

Abstract

A new and unique Agave plant named ‘Dressed to Impress’ characterized by low mounded plant habit of long, linear, mostly-flat, variegated leaves having very wide creamy-yellow margins with medium-green centers with an intermediate greenish yellow in between the margin variegation and center. The leaves have arch distally with maturity and have semi-flexible, sharp medium-sized marginal teeth and long, stiff apical spines and show occasional imprints from marginal spies of leaves above or below. The plant is useful in the landscape as a specimen, en masse, or also in a container in the home or landscape.

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 cultivar of ornamental Agave plant named ‘Dressed to Impress’ as herein described and illustrated.

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