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US Plant Patent PP17704

EVIpo009

Clematis plant named ‘EVIpo009’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired April 16, 2025. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on November 21, 2023. This patent earned 512 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP17704, the photograph of EVIpo009 printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP17704, 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
PP17704
Filed
November 21, 2003
Granted
May 8, 2007
Expires
April 16, 2025
Assignee
POULSEN ROSER AS
Inventor
OLESEN MOGENS N; EVISON RAYMOND J

Abstract

A new Clematis cultivar which is well suited to propagation is glasshouses. With a tall growth habit, profuse, white 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. We claim a new and distinct variety of clematis plant, as herein shown and described, due to its abundant white 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.

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