US Plant Patent PP20683

Dark Secret

Heuchera plant named ‘Dark Secret’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends November 12, 2028.

No term adjustment or disclaimer is recorded against this patent, so this is the full statutory term — twenty years from the filing date.

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The record

Patent number: PP20683
Filed: November 12, 2008
Granted: January 26, 2010
Expires: November 12, 2028
Assignee: DARQUES GERARD
Inventor: DARQUES GERARD

Abstract

A new cultivar of Heuchera , ‘Dark Secret’, characterized by its foliage that is dark purple-bronze in color with a silvery sheen with margins that are serrated and heavily ruffled, its petioles that are deep purple in color, its panicles of creamy white flowers held on purple stems, its vigorous growth habit, and its hardiness at least in 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 Heuchera plant named ‘Dark Secret’ as herein illustrated and described.

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