HYDfour

HYDfour

Hydrangea plant named ‘HYDfour’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends May 15, 2029.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on December 9, 2028. This patent earned 157 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP21513, the photograph of HYDfour printed in the patent.

Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP21513, 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.

Abstract

A new Hydrangea plant, which has abundant, pink colored double flowers and attractive foliage. The variety successfully propagates from softwood cuttings and is suitable for year round production in commercial glass houses as a flowering pot plant. This new and distinct variety has shown to be uniform and stable in the resulting generations from asexual propagation.

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

1. A new and distinct variety of Hydrangea plant, substantially as herein illustrated and described as a distinct and novel Hydrangea variety due to its abundant pink double flowers, attractive long lasting foliage, vigorous and compact growth, year round flowering under glasshouse conditions, suitability for production from softwood cuttings in pots, and durable flowers and foliage which make the variety suitable for distribution in the floral industry.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP21513 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.

The record

Abstract