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US Plant Patent PP27733

Painted Black Gecko

Colocasia plant named ‘Painted Black Gecko’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends May 16, 2035.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on February 10, 2035. This patent earned 95 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP27733, the photograph of Painted Black Gecko printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP27733, 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
PP27733
Filed
February 10, 2015
Granted
February 28, 2017
Expires
May 16, 2035
Assignee
WILLIAMS BRIAN PAUL, Brian's Botanicals
Inventor
WILLIAMS BRIAN PAUL

Abstract

A new cultivar of Colocasia plant named ‘Painted Black Gecko’, that is characterized by its clump forming, medium-sized plant habit growing 1.2 to 1.5 m in height, its leaves that are very dark purple-black in color with a blue metallic sheen, its leaves with lower surfaces that are dark maroon in color, its petioles that are dark purple-black in color, its healthy root system that is that is resilient to cold in U.S.D.A. Zone 7, and its production of 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 ‘Painted Black Gecko’ as herein illustrated and described.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP27733 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.