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US Plant Patent PP27878

Crown Jewels

Buddleia plant named ‘Crown Jewels’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends November 6, 2035.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on June 10, 2035. This patent earned 149 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP27878, the photograph of Crown Jewels printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP27878, 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
PP27878
Filed
June 10, 2015
Granted
April 11, 2017
Expires
November 6, 2035
Assignee
WALTERS GARDENS INC, HANSEN HANS A, HURD KEVIN A
Inventor
HANSEN HANS A; HURD KEVIN A

Abstract

Buddleia ‘Crown Jewels’ is a short, mounded, multi-stemmed, winter-hardy butterfly bush with long, compact, flowering thyrse over a long season beginning mid-summer with sweetly-fragrant red-purple flowers that are attractively offset by chartreuse to bright yellow foliage.

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

We claim: 1. A new cultivar of winter-hardy butterfly bush Buddleia plant named ‘Crown Jewels’ as herein illustrated and described, suitable for potted plant culture, landscaping as a specimen or en masse or as cut flower purposes.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP27878 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.