US Plant Patent PP23518

Plum Magic

Lagerstroemia plant named ‘Plum Magic’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends July 21, 2031.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on July 1, 2031. This patent earned 20 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

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The record

Patent number: PP23518
Filed: July 1, 2011
Granted: April 9, 2013
Expires: July 21, 2031
Assignee: PLANT INTRODUCTIONS INC, KARDOS JOSHUA H
Inventor: KARDOS JOSHUA H

Abstract

A new and distinct cultivar of Lagerstroemia plant named ‘Plum Magic’, characterized by its compact, rounded to upright intermediate growth habit, plum-purple new growth, gray-green foliage in summer, fuchsia-pink flowers, and resistance to powdery mildew and Cercospora leaf spot.

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 Lagerstroemia plant named ‘Plum Magic’, as illustrated and described herein.

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