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US Plant Patent PP20638

Evipo039

Clematis plant named ‘Evipo039’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends January 25, 2028.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on November 29, 2027. This patent earned 57 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP20638, the photograph of Evipo039 printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP20638, 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
PP20638
Filed
November 29, 2007
Granted
January 12, 2010
Expires
January 25, 2028
Inventor
OLESEN MOGENS N; EVISON RAYMOND

Abstract

A new Clematis plant with profuse, light violet flowers and early flowering habit. The variety successfully propagates from softwood cuttings and is suitable for cultivation commercial nursery culture culture. This new and distinct variety has shown to be uniform and stable in the resulting generations from asexual propagation from vegetative cuttings.

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 ‘Evipo039’, substantially as described and illustrated, due to its abundant light violet flowers, vigorous and compact growth, early flowering habit, suitability for commercial nursery container production from soft wood cuttings, durable flowers and foliage which make the variety suitable for distribution in the nursery industry.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP20638 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.