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US Plant Patent PP16471

Evipo029

Clematis plant named ‘Evipo029’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired January 18, 2025. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on May 3, 2024. This patent earned 260 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP16471, the photograph of Evipo029 printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP16471, 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
PP16471
Filed
May 3, 2004
Granted
April 25, 2006
Expires
January 18, 2025
Assignee
POULSEN ROSEN AS
Inventor
OLESEN MOGENS N; EVISON RAYMOND J

Abstract

A new Clematis cultivar which is well suited to propagation in glasshouses with a very compact growth habit and profuse light violet flowers. 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 ‘Evipo029’ as illustrated and described herein, due to its abundant violet flowers with good keepability, attractive long lasting foliage and exceptionally 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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