US Plant Patent PP23248

Zoang

Clematis plant named ‘Zoang’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends May 7, 2031.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on February 16, 2031. This patent earned 80 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

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The record

Patent number: PP23248
Filed: February 16, 2011
Granted: December 11, 2012
Expires: May 7, 2031
Assignee: SNOEIJER WIM
Inventor: SNOEIJER WIM

Abstract

A new cultivar of Clematis named ‘Zoang’, characterized by its free-flowering habit with flowers that are a strong red-purple color in spring and almost white with a strong red-purple stripe in summer with little fading, it climbing plant habit, and its cold hardiness to at least U.S.D.A. Zone 6.

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

1. A new and distinct cultivar of Clematis plant named ‘Zoang’ as herein illustrated and described.

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