US Plant Patent PP12908

Becky Towe

Phlox plant named ‘Becky Towe’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired September 22, 2020. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

No term adjustment or disclaimer is recorded against this patent, so this is the full statutory term — twenty years from the filing date.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP12908, the photograph of Becky Towe printed in the patent. — Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP12908, 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: PP12908
Filed: September 22, 2000
Granted: September 3, 2002
Expires: September 22, 2020
Inventor: TOWE JUNE

Abstract

A new cultivar of Phlox paniculata named ‘Becky Towe’ that is characterized by its gold margined variegated foliage that matures to a cream color when in bloom, its bronze growing tips on its spring foliage, its rich salmony carmine-rose colored blooms, and its vigorous growth habit of mildew resistant foliage.

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 Phlox plant named ‘Becky Towe’ as described and illustrated.

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