US Plant Patent PP8858
Heuchera variety cv. Absi
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired August 19, 2013. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
No term adjustment or disclaimer is recorded against this patent, so this is the full statutory term — twenty years from the filing date.
The record
- Patent number
- PP8858
- Filed
- August 19, 1993
- Granted
- August 9, 1994
- Expires
- August 19, 2013
- Assignee
- BLOOMS OF BRESSINGHAM LTD
- Inventor
- BLOOM ADRIAN J R
No cultivar name of record
This patent does not name the plant. Through the 1980s and early 1990s that was still common: naming every new cultivar only became standard practice as plants began to be marketed under brand names. The grant identifies this one by its number and by a written description instead.
Nothing here is missing from our records: the patent itself states no name. Where one exists we show it, and we do not invent one.
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of Heuchera plant that is characterized by its graceful flowers and especially by its decorative foliage consisting of large, distinctly lobed leaves which are strongly ribbed and which maintain a dark metallic purple-bronze color year round.
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 variety of Heuchera plant called `Absi` as herein illustrated and described.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP8858 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.