US Plant Patent PP15625

Melting Pot

Loropetalum chinense variety rubrum named ‘Melting Pot’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired September 22, 2022. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on February 1, 2022. This patent earned 233 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

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The record

Patent number: PP15625
Filed: February 1, 2002
Granted: March 8, 2005
Expires: September 22, 2022
Assignee: HINES NURSERIES INC
Inventor: YINGER BARRY R; FOLEY JR THOMAS M

Abstract

A new plant variety of Loropetalum chinense var. rubrum characterized by its white flowers and purple colored new foliage which matures to green.

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

1. A new plant of Loropetalum chinense var. rubrum substantially as shown and described.

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