US Plant Patent PP35079

NC2014-5

Cercis plant named ‘NC2014-5’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends October 18, 2042.

No term adjustment or disclaimer is recorded against this patent, so this is the full statutory term — twenty years from the filing date.

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The record

Patent number: PP35079
Filed: October 18, 2022
Granted: April 4, 2023
Expires: October 18, 2042
Assignee: UNIV NORTH CAROLINA STATE
Inventor: WERNER DENNIS; KENEALY LEANNE M

Abstract

A new and distinct variety of Cercis plant, referred to by its cultivar name, ‘NC2014-5’, is disclosed. The new variety is characterized by its profusion of light-purplish-pink-colored flowers. Small, green colored foliage which aligns in an attractive overlapping pattern along the stem is formed and moderately slow growing, upright, dwarf growth habit is displayed.

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

We claim: 1. A new and distinct cultivar of Cercis plant named ‘NC2014-5’, substantially as herein illustrated and described.

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