US Plant Patent PP15156
EVIpo024
Clematis viticella plant named ‘EVIpo024’
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired August 17, 2023. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on August 13, 2023. This patent earned 4 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

The record
- Patent number
- PP15156
- Filed
- August 13, 2003
- Granted
- September 21, 2004
- Expires
- August 17, 2023
- Assignee
- POULSEN ROSER AS
- Inventor
- OLESEN MOGENS N; EVISON RAYMOND J
Abstract
A new Clematis cultivar which is well suited to propagation in glasshouses. With a tall growth habit, profuse, purple flowers, and spring and autumn flowering.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 propagation.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
We claim: 1. A new and distinct variety of Clematis plant named ‘EVIpo024’, as illustrated and described herein as a distinct and novel clematis variety due to its abundant purple 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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