US Plant Patent PP30318
Black Swan
Colocasia plant named ‘Black Swan’
UNDER PATENT
Still under patent. Protection ends February 14, 2038.
No term adjustment or disclaimer is recorded against this patent, so this is the full statutory term — twenty years from the filing date.

The record
- Patent number
- PP30318
- Filed
- February 14, 2018
- Granted
- March 26, 2019
- Expires
- February 14, 2038
- Assignee
- WALTERS GARDENS INC, HANSEN HANS A
- Inventor
- HANSEN HANS A
Abstract
A new cultivar of Colocasia plant named ‘Black Swan’ characterized by large, lustrous, dark greyed-purple leaves; stemless, vigorous, tropical, perennial habit and multiple long spadix flowers surrounded by enrolled burgundy spathes.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
It is claimed: 1. A new and distinct cultivar of Colocasia plant named ‘Black Swan’ as herein illustrated and described.
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