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.

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.