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US Plant Patent PP24545

Ginger Snap

Heuchera plant named ‘Ginger Snap’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends December 26, 2032.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on August 7, 2032. This patent earned 141 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP24545, the photograph of Ginger Snap printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP24545, 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
PP24545
Filed
August 7, 2012
Granted
June 10, 2014
Expires
December 26, 2032
Inventor
EGGER JANET N

Abstract

A new and distinct Heuchera plant characterized by small, heavily veiled, lightly ruffled leaves that are red brown in spring, winter leaves olive green with a white veil, very short flowering stems of pink flowers, reblooming all spring, summer, and fall, small, multi-crowned, low mounding habit, and good vigor.

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 Heuchera plant as herein illustrated and described.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP24545 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.