US Plant Patent PP8965
Heuchera Chocolate Ruffles
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired December 30, 2013. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
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
- PP8965
- Filed
- December 30, 1993
- Granted
- November 1, 1994
- Expires
- December 30, 2013
- Assignee
- TERRA NOVA NURSERIES INC
- Inventor
- HEIMS DAN M
No cultivar name of record
This patent does not name the plant. Through the 1980s and early 1990s that was still common: naming every new cultivar only became standard practice as plants began to be marketed under brand names. The grant identifies this one by its number and by a written description instead.
Nothing here is missing from our records: the patent itself states no name. Where one exists we show it, and we do not invent one.
Abstract
A new and distinct hybrid of Heuchera characterized by unique, ruffled leaves of chocolate coloration showing the burgundy underside through the ruffles.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. A new and distinct hybrid of Heuchera substantially as shown and described, characterized by unique, ruffled leaves of chocolate coloration showing the burgundy underside through the ruffles.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP8965 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.