US Plant Patent PP35633
Wards Blue Waves
Colorado blue spruce tree named ‘Wards Blue Waves’
UNDER PATENT
Still under patent. Protection ends June 2, 2043.
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
- PP35633
- Filed
- June 2, 2023
- Granted
- February 6, 2024
- Expires
- June 2, 2043
- Assignee
- TREESAP FARMS LLC, NELSON RANDALL S
- Inventor
- NELSON RANDALL S
Abstract
A new cultivar of Colorado blue spruce tree named ‘Wards Blue Waves’ characterized by its foliage that is silvery blue in appearance in color year around, its foliage with a very glaucous surface, its branch apexes that curve upwards, its dense and compact plant habit, its conical shape, and its short plant height; reaches 6 m after 20 years when grown in Oregon.
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 Colorado Blue Spruce tree named ‘Wards Blue Waves’ as herein illustrated and described.
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