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US Plant Patent PP16012

Evipo020

Clematis plant named ‘Evipo020’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired May 21, 2024. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on April 1, 2024. This patent earned 50 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP16012, the photograph of Evipo020 printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP16012, 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
PP16012
Filed
April 1, 2004
Granted
September 27, 2005
Expires
May 21, 2024
Assignee
POULSEN ROSER AS
Inventor
OLESEN MOGENS N; EVISON RAYMOND J

Abstract

A new Clematis cultivar which is well suited to propagation in glasshouses, with a tall growth habit, profuse, purple 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 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 ‘Evipo020’, herein described and illustrated as a distinct and novel Clematis variety due to its abundant purple 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 PP16012 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.