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US Plant Patent PP23349

Stainless Steel

Heuchera plant named ‘Stainless Steel’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends August 28, 2031.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on July 25, 2031. This patent earned 34 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP23349, the photograph of Stainless Steel printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP23349, 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
PP23349
Filed
July 25, 2011
Granted
January 22, 2013
Expires
August 28, 2031
Assignee
PLANTS NOUVEAU LLC, OLIVER CHARLES
Inventor
OLIVER CHARLES

Abstract

A new cultivar of Heuchera , ‘Stainless Steel’, is characterized by its foliage that emerges silver in color and heavily suffused with red-purple and matures to silver with green veins, lower leaf surface is dark red-purple, its flowers that are comparatively large, well shaped, and white in color, its well-proportioned plant form, its evergreen foliage that is weather resistant with good tolerance to wind and rain, and its good garden performance.

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 ‘Stainless Steel’ as herein illustrated and described.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP23349 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.