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US Plant Patent PP20443

Summer Storm

Hibiscus plant named ‘Summer Storm’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends August 13, 2028.

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 PP20443, the photograph of Summer Storm printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP20443, 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
PP20443
Filed
August 13, 2008
Granted
October 27, 2009
Expires
August 13, 2028
Assignee
WALTERS GARDENS INC
Inventor
FALSTAD III CLARENCE H

Abstract

A new and distinct cultivar of hardy Hibiscus hybrid plant named ‘Summer Storm’ with dark burgundy palmate leaves producing a multitude of pink blushed flowers with darker rose stripes and deep red eye over at least 12 weeks during the summer and early fall.

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

1. A new and distinct cultivar of hardy Hibiscus hybrid plant named ‘Summer Storm’ as herein described and illustrated, with dark burgundy palmate leaves and producing a multitude of pink blushed flowers with darker rose stripes and deep red eye over at least 12 weeks during the summer and early fall, and suitable as a potted plant, for the garden, and for cut flower arrangements.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP20443 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.