US Plant Patent PP30297
DUP-FLC
Hibiscus plant named ‘DUP-FLC’
UNDER PATENT
Still under patent. Protection ends May 4, 2037.
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
- PP30297
- Filed
- May 4, 2017
- Granted
- March 19, 2019
- Expires
- May 4, 2037
- Assignee
- DUPONT SR ROBERT JAMES, DUPONT NURSERY INC
- Inventor
- DUPONT SR ROBERT JAMES
Abstract
A new and distinct cultivar of hibiscus plant named ‘DUP-FLC’, characterized by glossy, dark green leaves, upright growth, and a very large flower characterized by a dilute medium red eye zone which extends approximately one third of the petal length, the eye grading into an unpigmented zone through which dilute red rays extend, grading into a light brown zone which grades into a cantaloupe orange zone, which may be flecked with yellow, which grades into a yellow zone at the petal margin which is curled slightly upward.
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-FLC’, either grafted or on its own roots, as illustrated and described.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP30297 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.