US Plant Patent PP22346

Tijuana Brass

Helenium plant named ‘Tijuana Brass’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends October 27, 2030.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on October 25, 2030. 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: PP22346
Filed: October 25, 2010
Granted: December 13, 2011
Expires: October 27, 2030
Assignee: SMITH MICHAEL VERN, HORN MAURICE R
Inventor: SMITH MICHAEL VERN; HORN MAURICE R

Abstract

A new cultivar of hybrid Helenium , ‘Tijuana Brass’, characterized by its long season of bloom, it upright growth habit that resists lodging, its clean foliage that persists on the lower portions of the stems, its flowers that are larger in size than most Helenium , and its hardiness in U.S.D.A. Zones 4 to 8.

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 Helenium plant named ‘Tijuana Brass’ substantially as herein illustrated and described.

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