US Plant Patent PP16894

Center Glow

Physocarpus plant named ‘Center Glow’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired May 22, 2025. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on May 17, 2025. This patent earned 5 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

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The record

Patent number: PP16894
Filed: May 17, 2005
Granted: July 25, 2006
Expires: May 22, 2025
Assignee: PELLETT HAROLD M
Inventor: PELLETT HAROLD M

Abstract

A new cultivar of Physocarpus, Physocarpus opulifolius ‘Center Glow’, characterized by its upright, mounded habit, and its unique foliage with leaves that emerge bright purple red with bright gold and develop to a bright but slightly darker purple red.

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 Physocarpus plant named ‘Center Glow’ substantially as herein illustrated and described.

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