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US Plant Patent PP15016

Lemondrop

Japanese Spirea plant named ‘Lemondrop’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired September 15, 2021. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on January 16, 2023, but this patent ends 488 days earlier — a terminal disclaimer gives term back. A source that calculates twenty years from filing would tell you this plant is still protected when it is already free.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP15016, the photograph of Lemondrop printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP15016, 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
PP15016
Filed
January 16, 2003
Granted
July 13, 2004
Expires
September 15, 2021
Assignee
CP DELAWARE INC
Inventor
FARROW MICHAEL

Abstract

A new variety of Spiraea japonica plant is provided that is well suited for growing as attractive ornamentation. The new variety exhibits a dwarf mounding growth habit. Attractive mauve-pink blooms commonly are formed from May to October. Yellow-Green foliage is displayed that is more yellow when grown in full sun. The available Spirea choices are expanded.

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

I claim: 1. A new and distinct variety of Spiraea japonica plant having the following combination of characteristics: (a) exhibits a dwarf mounding growth habit, (b) forms attractive mauve-pink blooms, and (c) forms yellow-green foliage that is more yellow when grown in full sun; substantially as illustrated and described.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP15016 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.