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US Plant Patent PP27139

Apricot

Heuchera plant named ‘Apricot’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends November 6, 2034.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on July 14, 2034. This patent earned 115 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP27139, the photograph of Apricot printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP27139, 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
PP27139
Filed
July 14, 2014
Granted
September 6, 2016
Expires
November 6, 2034
Inventor
DELABROYE THIERRY

Abstract

A new cultivar of hybrid Heuchera named ‘Apricot’, characterized by its leaves that are bronze-orange in color, its compact plant habit with a tight mound of foliage, its abundance of flowering stems, and its medium pink flowers on dark red-purple flowering stems.

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 hybrid Heuchera plant named ‘Apricot’ as herein illustrated and described.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP27139 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.