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US Plant Patent PP30281

Ripple Effect

Agave plant named ‘Ripple Effect’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends February 14, 2038.

No term adjustment or disclaimer is recorded against this patent, so this is the full statutory term — twenty years from the filing date.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP30281, the photograph of Ripple Effect printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP30281, 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
PP30281
Filed
February 14, 2018
Granted
March 5, 2019
Expires
February 14, 2038
Inventor
HANSEN HANS A

Abstract

A new and unique Agave plant named ‘Ripple Effect’ characterized by outright to horizontal plant habit of broadly-lanceolate, slightly-cupped, variegated leaves having wide yellowish-cream margins and contrasting bluish-green centers. The leaves have large colorful marginal and apical spines. 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 ‘Ripple Effect’ as herein described and illustrated.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP30281 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.