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US Plant Patent PP28680

Fashionably Early Princess

Phlox plant named ‘Fashionably Early Princess’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends December 1, 2036.

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 PP28680, the photograph of Fashionably Early Princess printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP28680, 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
PP28680
Filed
December 1, 2016
Granted
November 21, 2017
Expires
December 1, 2036
Inventor
HANSEN HANS A

Abstract

A new and unique cultivar of garden phlox named Phlox ‘Fashionably Early Princess’ multi-stemmed, dense, slowly-spreading habit with bright-green, glossy, thick-substance, lanceolate leaves. Flowers are sweetly-fragrant, light fuchsia-pink, in many-flowered corymbs beginning very early in early June, continuing for about five weeks and repeating through mid-fall or frost. Foliage stays clean and resists mildew.

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 hybrid phlox plant named Phlox ‘Fashionably Early Princess’, as herein described and illustrated.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP28680 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.