US Plant Patent PP17228

PINK ELF

Epimedium plant named ‘PINK ELF’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired July 28, 2025. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on July 26, 2025. This patent earned 2 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

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The record

Patent number: PP17228
Filed: July 26, 2005
Granted: November 21, 2006
Expires: July 28, 2025
Assignee: WHITE ANTHONY ROBIN
Inventor: WHITE ANTHONY ROBIN

Abstract

A new cultivar of Epimedium plant named ‘PINK ELF’ that is characterized by clumping habit, leaflets that are green and russet in color, and purple-pink spurred flowers that are held above two distinct layers of foliage. In combination these traits set ‘PINK ELF’ apart from all other existing varieties of Epimedium known to the inventor.

Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.

1. A new and distinct cultivar of Epimedium plant named ‘PINK ELF’, as described and illustrated herein.

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