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US Plant Patent PP28001

Maximus Gigante

Colocasia plant named ‘Maximus Gigante’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends July 24, 2035.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on May 4, 2035. This patent earned 81 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP28001, the photograph of Maximus Gigante printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP28001, 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
PP28001
Filed
May 4, 2015
Granted
May 9, 2017
Expires
July 24, 2035
Assignee
WILLIAMS BRIAN PAUL, Brian's Botanicals
Inventor
WILLIAMS BRIAN PAUL

Abstract

A new cultivar of Colocasia plant named ‘Maximus Gigante’, that is characterized by its clump forming, large plant habit growing up to 2.1 m in height, its large leaves up to 1 m in length that are held nearly horizontally, its leaves that are green in color with a pinkish-purple marking where the stem attaches and dark bluish-purple colored markings between the veins, its leaves with lower surfaces maroon-gray to green in color, its petioles that are dark green to bluish gray in color, suffused with pink at the edges, its healthy root system that is cold hardy up to U.S.D.A. Zone 7, and its production of very large tubers as it ages.

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 ‘Maximus Gigante’ as herein illustrated and described.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP28001 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.