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US Plant Patent PP27834

Dark Dynasty

Buddleia plant named ‘Dark Dynasty’

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 PP27834, the photograph of Dark Dynasty printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP27834, 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
PP27834
Filed
June 10, 2015
Granted
April 4, 2017
Expires
November 6, 2035
Assignee
WALTERS GARDENS INC, HANSEN HANS A
Inventor
HANSEN HANS A

Abstract

Buddleia ‘Dark Dynasty’ is a short, compact, mounded, multi-stemmed, winter-hardy butterfly bush with long, compact, flowering, thyrse over a long season beginning mid-summer with sweetly-fragrant royal-purple flowers that are attractively offset by dark green foliage.

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

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

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP27834 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.