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US Plant Patent PP16844

EVIpo005

Clematis plant named ‘EVIpo005’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired July 18, 2023. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on January 24, 2023. This patent earned 175 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP16844, the photograph of EVIpo005 printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP16844, 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
PP16844
Filed
January 24, 2003
Granted
July 18, 2006
Expires
July 18, 2023
Assignee
RAYMOND J EVISON LTD
Inventor
EVISON RAYMOND J; OLESEN MOGENS N

Abstract

A new Clematis cultivar which is well suited to propagation in glasshouses with a tall growth habit, profuse, light green flowers, and continuous summer flowering. The variety successfully propagates from softwood cuttings and is suitable for cultivation in commercial glasshouses. This new and distinct variety has shown to be uniform and stable in the resulting generations from asexual propagation.

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

1. A new and distinct variety of clematis plant, substantially as herein shown and described, as a distinct and novel clematis variety due to its abundant light green flowers with good keepability, attractive long lasting foliage and compact growth, year round flowering under glasshouse conditions, suitability for production from softwood cuttings in pots, durable flowers and foliage which make the variety suitable for distribution in the floral industry.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP16844 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.