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US Plant Patent PP27987

Queen of Hearts

Buddleia plant named ‘Queen of Hearts’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends October 23, 2035.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on June 10, 2035. This patent earned 135 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP27987, the photograph of Queen of Hearts printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP27987, 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
PP27987
Filed
June 10, 2015
Granted
May 9, 2017
Expires
October 23, 2035
Assignee
WALTERS GARDENS INC, HANSEN HANS A
Inventor
HANSEN HANS A

Abstract

Buddleia ‘Queen of Hearts’ is a broadly mounded, multi-stemmed, winter-hardy butterfly bush plant with long compact flowering thyrse over a long season beginning mid-summer with sweetly-fragrant magenta red flowers that are attractively offset by medium 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 plant Buddleia plant named ‘Queen of Hearts’ 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 PP27987 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.