US Plant Patent PP17203

Purpleleaf

Plant variety of Davidia involucrata named ‘Purpleleaf’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired November 8, 2024. 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 PP17203, the photograph of Purpleleaf printed in the patent. — Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP17203, 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: PP17203
Filed: November 8, 2004
Granted: November 14, 2006
Expires: November 8, 2024
Assignee: HINES NURSERIES INC
Inventor: SHIBAMICHI AKIRA

Abstract

A new plant variety of Davidia involucrata distinguished from its parents and all other varieties of Davidia involucrata of which I am aware by the dark burgundy colored foliage in spring through leaf abscission in fall.

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

1. A new and distinct Davidia involucrata plant of the variety substantially as shown and described.

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