US Plant Patent PP25608
Evipo040
Clematis plant named ‘Evipo040’
UNDER PATENT
Still under patent. Protection ends December 15, 2032.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on May 31, 2032. This patent earned 198 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

The record
- Patent number
- PP25608
- Filed
- May 31, 2012
- Granted
- June 2, 2015
- Expires
- December 15, 2032
- Inventor
- OLESEN MOGENS NYEGAARD; EVISON RAYMOND J
Abstract
A new Clematis plant with a compact growth habit, profuse, violet blue flowers, and continuous summer flowering. The variety successfully propagates from softwood cuttings and is suitable for cultivation commercial nursery culture. This new and distinct variety has shown to be uniform and stable in the resulting generations from asexual propagation from vegetative cuttings.
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We claim: 1. A new and distinct variety of clematis plant named ‘Evipo040’, substantially as described and illustrated herein, due to its abundant violet blue 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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