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US Plant Patent PP30516

DUP-PTS

Hibiscus plant named ‘DUP-PTS’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends February 21, 2037.

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 PP30516, the photograph of DUP-PTS printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP30516, 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
PP30516
Filed
February 21, 2017
Granted
May 21, 2019
Expires
February 21, 2037
Inventor
DUPONT SR ROBERT JAMES

Abstract

A new and distinct cultivar of Hibiscus plant named ‘DUP-PTS’, characterized by a very large flower characterized by a large, glossy dark red eye which extends approximately 20 percent of petal length, the eye sharply margined with a light purplish-pink zone which extends to approximately 40 percent of the petal length, the pink zone grading into a caramel brown zone which grades into a bright brownish-orange zone, which grades into an orange-yellow zone at the petal edge. The venation radiating from the solid light purplish-pink zone remains purplish-pink throughout the grading of the purplish-pink intervein zones with the caramel brown zone.

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

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP30516 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.