US Plant Patent PP13384

Kristin Lipka's Variegated Weeping Dogwood Tree

‘Kristin Lipka's Variegated Weeping Dogwood Tree’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired May 12, 2021. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on April 30, 2021. This patent earned 12 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP13384, the photograph of Kristin Lipka's Variegated Weeping Dogwood Tree printed in the patent. — Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP13384, 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: PP13384
Filed: April 30, 2001
Granted: December 17, 2002
Expires: May 12, 2021
Inventor: LIPKA ROBERT

Abstract

A new and distinct cultivar of Cornus Kousa Pendula known as ‘Kristin Lipka's Variegated Weeper’ as illustrated and described. This new cultivar has the distinction of being variegated and having a strong weeping habit.

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 Cornus Kousa Dogwood tree named ‘Kristin Lipka's

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