US Plant Patent PP16942

TNHEU044

Heuchera plant named ‘TNHEU044’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired July 4, 2025. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on March 23, 2025. This patent earned 103 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

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The record

Patent number: PP16942
Filed: March 23, 2005
Granted: August 8, 2006
Expires: July 4, 2025
Assignee: TERRA NOVA NURSERIES INC
Inventor: GOSSETT GARY J

Abstract

A new and distinct Heuchera plant characterized by large, very shiny, purple black colored leaves, a vigorous, mounding habit.

Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.

1. A new and distinct Heuchera plant as herein illustrated and described.

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