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US Plant Patent PP31676

Magnificent

Epimedium plant named ‘Magnificent’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends March 1, 2039.

No term adjustment or disclaimer is recorded against this patent, so this is the full statutory term — twenty years from the filing date.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP31676, the photograph of Magnificent printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP31676, 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
PP31676
Filed
March 1, 2019
Granted
April 14, 2020
Expires
March 1, 2039
Inventor
DELABROYE THIERRY

Abstract

A new cultivar of Epimedium plant, ‘Magnificent’, that is characterized by its ge similar to plants of the species Epimedium pinnatum , its flowers that are conspicuously carried above the foliage, its unique flower coloration with spurred petals that are shorter than the sepals and orange-brown in color and sepals that are pale yellow in color, its flowers that are large in size, its foliage that is dark in color in the winter, its spreading plant shape, and its young leaves that are red-purple in color and change to deep yellow-green as they mature.

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 Epimedium plant named ‘Magnificent’ as herein illustrated and described.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP31676 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.