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US Plant Patent PP15166

EVIpo023

Clematis viticella variety denomination ‘EVIpo023’

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.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP15166, the photograph of EVIpo023 printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP15166, 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
PP15166
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 compact growth habit, profuse, light violet blue flowers with a yellow center.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 ‘Evipo023’, as illustrated and described herein as a distinct and novel clematis variety due to its abundant violet 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.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP15166 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.