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US Plant Patent PP26750

Indigo Spires

Baptisia plant named ‘Indigo Spires’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends November 13, 2034.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on June 6, 2034. This patent earned 160 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP26750, the photograph of Indigo Spires printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP26750, 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
PP26750
Filed
June 6, 2014
Granted
May 24, 2016
Expires
November 13, 2034
Assignee
WALTERS GARDENS INC, HANSEN HANS A
Inventor
HANSEN HANS A

Abstract

A new and distinct plant cultivar of hardy herbaceous False Indigo named Baptisia Baptisia ‘Indigo Spires’ characterized by upright vase-shaped habit with heavily branced upright stems producing many large, dark indigo-colored flowers on well-branched stems held well above the foliage in the spring held well above the foliage in the late spring, suitable for landscaping as a specimen or en masse.

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 hardy herbaceous False Indigo plant named Baptisia ‘Indigo Spires’ as herein described and illustrated.

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