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US Plant Patent PP23675

Cotton Candy Two

Hydrangea plant named ‘Cotton Candy Two’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends January 16, 2032.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on November 1, 2031. This patent earned 76 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP23675, the photograph of Cotton Candy Two printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP23675, 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
PP23675
Filed
November 1, 2011
Granted
June 18, 2013
Expires
January 16, 2032
Assignee
GRAY JOSEPH
Inventor
GRAY JOSEPH

Abstract

A new cultivar of Hydrangea macrophylla named ‘Cotton Candy Two’ that is characterized by its remontant (re-blooming) habit, blooming from May until frost, its lacecap type inflorescences with single sterile flowers surrounding a mass of fertile flowers, its flowers that are dark pink in color in color when grown with a soil PH of 7 or above, its sterile flowers with sepals that have serrated to crenated margins with a fine white edge on most sepals, and its 95% cutting rooting rate.

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 cultivar of Hydrangea plant named ‘Cotton Candy Two’ substantially as herein illustrated and described.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP23675 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.