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US Plant Patent PP31424

Backdraft

Kniphofia plant named ‘Backdraft’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends January 3, 2039.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on November 28, 2038. This patent earned 36 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP31424, the photograph of Backdraft printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP31424, 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
PP31424
Filed
November 28, 2018
Granted
January 28, 2020
Expires
January 3, 2039
Assignee
WALTERS GARDENS INC, HANSEN HANS A
Inventor
HANSEN HANS A

Abstract

A new and distinct cultivar of Red Hot Poker plant named Kniphofia ‘Backdraft’ with long, gracefully-arching, strap-like, keeled, glaucous, gray-green foliage and numerous scapes beginning in early summer and repeating though early fall. Habit is densely growing, winter-hardy and tolerant of heat. Numerous scapes of intense reddish-orange flowers that mature to pale yellow on short scapes beginning in early summer and repeating into early October. The new plant is useful for landscaping as a specimen, en masse, or as a long-lasting cut flower.

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 cultivar of Kniphofia plant named ‘Backdraft’ as herein described and illustrated.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP31424 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.