US Plant Patent PP36199
DUP-BPP
Hibiscus plant called ‘DUP-BPP’
UNDER PATENT
Still under patent. Protection ends July 16, 2043.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on July 8, 2041. This patent earned 738 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

The record
- Patent number
- PP36199
- Filed
- July 8, 2021
- Granted
- October 15, 2024
- Expires
- July 16, 2043
- Assignee
- DUPONT JEFFREY THOMAS
- Inventor
- DUPONT JEFFREY THOMAS
Abstract
A new and distinct cultivar of Hibiscus plant named ‘DUP-BPP’, characterized by glossy, dark green leaves, a large, medium-textured flower characterized by a medium-sized, semi-glossy currant red eye which extends approximately one third of petal length, the eye grading into a yellow-toned red zone which extends to the petal edge. Veins are prominent, pinkish-white, radiating out of the eye to two thirds the petal length.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
It is claimed: 1. A new and distinct Hibiscus plant named ‘DUP-BPP’, either grafted or on its own roots, as illustrated and described.
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