US Plant Patent PP20469
Bourfrits
Photinia plant named ‘Bourfrits’
UNDER PATENT
Still under patent. Protection ends September 4, 2028.
No term adjustment or disclaimer is recorded against this patent, so this is the full statutory term — twenty years from the filing date.

The record
- Patent number
- PP20469
- Filed
- September 4, 2008
- Granted
- November 10, 2009
- Expires
- September 4, 2028
- Assignee
- BOURQUIN ANDRE
- Inventor
- BOURQUIN ANDRE
Abstract
A new cultivar of Photinia, ‘Bourfrits’, characterized by its bushy, compact, mounded plant habit, its stems that are supple, slightly arching, and well branched with short internode lengths, and its leaves that form a rosette at the growing tips when emerging, have strongly serrated margins, and are bright red in color when young.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
1. A new and distinct cultivar of Photinia plant named ‘Bourfrits’, as herein illustrated and described.
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