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US Plant Patent PP26761

Lava Lamp

Heuchera plant named ‘Lava Lamp’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends August 20, 2034.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on December 6, 2033. This patent earned 257 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP26761, the photograph of Lava Lamp printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP26761, 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
PP26761
Filed
December 6, 2013
Granted
May 24, 2016
Expires
August 20, 2034
Assignee
WALTERS GARDENS INC, HURD KEVIN A
Inventor
HURD KEVIN A

Abstract

The new and distinct plant hybrid cultivar Heuchera ‘Lava Lamp’ with large, billowy mass of very large, coppery-purple leaves with deep purple undersides. The newest leaves emerge a coppery-purple and then deepen to purplish-green as they age. This variety has large, flat, rounded, shallowly-lobed leaves. Deep purple scapes carry plump wands of closely-spaced cream and maroon-colored flowers in early summer.

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 Coral Bells plant named Heuchera ‘Lava Lamp’ as herein described and illustrated with foliage of light coppery-purple, darkening to a purplish-green later in the season, and very deep purple underside, with cream and maroon-colored flowers and with improved heat and humidity tolerance.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP26761 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.