US Plant Patent PP15953

Vanso

Clematis plant named ‘Vanso’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired April 19, 2022. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on December 18, 2021. This patent earned 122 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP15953, the photograph of Vanso printed in the patent. — Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP15953, 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: PP15953
Filed: December 18, 2001
Granted: September 13, 2005
Expires: April 19, 2022
Assignee: PRIDE OF PLACE PLANTS INC
Inventor: VAN HAASTEST FRANS C M

Abstract

Described as a new variety of Clematis which produces fully doubled flowers of attractive coloration.

Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.

1. A new variety of Clematis plant as shown and described.

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