US Plant Patent PP15294

Hot Chocolate

Calla lily plant named ‘Hot Chocolate’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired April 22, 2023. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on March 6, 2023. This patent earned 47 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP15294, the photograph of Hot Chocolate printed in the patent. — Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP15294, 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: PP15294
Filed: March 6, 2003
Granted: November 2, 2004
Expires: April 22, 2023
Assignee: BLOOMZ LTD
Inventor: WARREN ANDREW G F; SPAANS JACOBUS J P

Abstract

A calla lily plant particularly distinguished by dark purple spathe and maculated leaves.

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 calla lily plant as shown and described herein.

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