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US Plant Patent PP24508

Echo Duo

Kniphofia plant named ‘Echo Duo’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends December 14, 2032.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on June 26, 2032. This patent earned 171 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP24508, the photograph of Echo Duo printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP24508, 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
PP24508
Filed
June 26, 2012
Granted
May 27, 2014
Expires
December 14, 2032
Inventor
SAUL RICHARD G

Abstract

A new cultivar of Kniphofia , ‘Echo Duo’, characterized by its bicolor inflorescences with flowers that emerge orange-red and mature to creamy white, its early blooming habit with repeat bloom throughout the summer, its semi-evergreen foliage that remains clean, its dense clump-forming habit with upright stems that do not lodge, its ability to readily produces side shoots with each shoot producing blooms and its ability to produce blooms on young plants.

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 Kniphofia plant named ‘Echo Duo’ as herein illustrated and described.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP24508 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.