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US Plant Patent PP27832

Glass Slippers

Buddleia plant named ‘Glass Slippers’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends October 29, 2035.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on June 10, 2035. This patent earned 141 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP27832, the photograph of Glass Slippers printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP27832, 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
PP27832
Filed
June 10, 2015
Granted
April 4, 2017
Expires
October 29, 2035
Assignee
WALTERS GARDENS INC, HANSEN HANS A
Inventor
HANSEN HANS A

Abstract

Buddleia ‘Glass Slipper’ is a short, mounded, multi-stemmed, winter-hardy butterfly bush plant with long, compact, self-cleaning flowering thyrse over a long season beginning mid-summer with sweetly-fragrant pale periwinkle flowers that are attractively offset by silvery 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 ‘Glass Slippers’ as herein illustrated and described, suitable for potted plant culture, landscaping as a specimen or en masse or for cut flower purposes.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP27832 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.