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US Plant Patent PP21912

HYDthree

Hydrangea plant named ‘HYDthree’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends December 9, 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 PP21912, the photograph of HYDthree printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP21912, 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
PP21912
Filed
December 9, 2008
Granted
May 10, 2011
Expires
December 9, 2028
Assignee
FOTINOS PETER
Inventor
FOTINOS PETER

Abstract

A new Hydrangea plant, which has abundant, pink or blue 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 or blue 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 PP21912 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.