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US Plant Patent PP29294

DUP-GFTH

Hibiscus plant named ‘DUP-GFTH’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends May 2, 2036.

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 PP29294, the photograph of DUP-GFTH printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP29294, 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
PP29294
Filed
May 2, 2016
Granted
May 15, 2018
Expires
May 2, 2036
Assignee
DUPONT SR ROBERT JAMES
Inventor
DUPONT SR ROBERT JAMES

Abstract

A new and distinct cultivar of hibiscus plant named ‘DUP-GFTH’, characterized by extremely compact growth, glossy, dark green leaves of reduced size relative to standard exotic hibiscus varieties, strongly upright growth, and large flowers having a glossy dark rust red eye which extends about 30 percent of the petal length, sharply margined against a zone of purplish-pink which extends to roughly the midpoint of the petal and grades into a pinkish-beige zone which grades to a bright straw yellow edge having highlights of cantaloupe orange.

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-GFTH’, either grafted or on its own roots, as illustrated and described.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP29294 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.