US Plant Patent PP20613

Blackout

Heuchera plant named ‘Blackout’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends April 19, 2028.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on February 21, 2028. This patent earned 58 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

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The record

Patent number: PP20613
Filed: February 21, 2008
Granted: December 29, 2009
Expires: April 19, 2028
Assignee: SCHEYS DIEDERIK A M
Inventor: SCHEYS DIEDERIK A M

Abstract

A new cultivar of hybrid Heuchera named ‘Blackout’, characterized by its glossy, dark black-brown colored foliage held nearly flat on dark purple petioles, its compact and mounded plant habit, its vigor, and its hardiness in at least U.S.D.A Zones 4 to 9.

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

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