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US Plant Patent PP22528

DUP-DXLD

Hibiscus plant named ‘DUP-DXLD’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends April 9, 2030.

No term adjustment or disclaimer is recorded against this patent, so this is the full statutory term — twenty years from the filing date.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP22528, the photograph of DUP-DXLD printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP22528, 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
PP22528
Filed
April 9, 2010
Granted
February 28, 2012
Expires
April 9, 2030
Inventor
DUPONT SR ROBERT J

Abstract

A new and distinct cultivar of hibiscus plant named ‘DUP-DXLD’, characterized by glossy, dark green leaves, prostrate growth, and large flowers having a medium sized dark red eye which extends about 25 percent of petal length to the edge of a variable pink zone which grades evenly from a medium pink at the overlapping edge to a light pink at the underlapping edge, with a petal margin of light orange.

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

The invention claimed is: 1. A new and distinct hibiscus plant named ‘DUP-DXLD’, as illustrated and described.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP22528 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.