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US Plant Patent PP16069

Evipo019

Clematis plant named ‘Evipo019’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired May 14, 2024. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on February 26, 2024. This patent earned 78 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP16069, the photograph of Evipo019 printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP16069, 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
PP16069
Filed
February 26, 2004
Granted
October 25, 2005
Expires
May 14, 2024
Inventor
OLESEN MOGENS N; EVISON RAYMOND J

Abstract

A new Clematis cultivar which is well suited to propagation in glasshouses. ‘Evipo019’ flowers readily as a young plant, has a compact growth habit, profuse, violet blue 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 named ‘Evipo019’ as illustrated and described herein, due to its abundant light violet 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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