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US Plant Patent PP13613

Bliss

Azalea plant named ‘Bliss’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired December 28, 2021. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on June 25, 2021. This patent earned 186 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP13613, the photograph of Bliss printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP13613, 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
PP13613
Filed
June 25, 2001
Granted
March 4, 2003
Expires
December 28, 2021
Assignee
YODER BROTHERS INC
Inventor
GLICENSTEIN LEON; BERGMAN WENDY R

Abstract

A new and distinct cultivar of Azalea plant named ‘Bliss’, characterized by its very dark green leaves that do not abscise during the cooling and forcing periods; large plants with dense and outwardly spreading plant habit; vigorous growth habit; very freely branching habit; rapid flowering response; numerous, large and showy intense pink-colored flowers; single flower form; excellent postproduction longevity; and very low incidence of infection with Cylindrocladium in inoculated trials.

Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.

It is claimed: 1. A new and distinct Azalea plant named ‘Bliss’, as illustrated and described.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP13613 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.