US Plant Patent PP26206
Zita
Prunus plant named ‘Zita’
UNDER PATENT
Still under patent. Protection ends May 9, 2033.
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
- PP26206
- Filed
- May 9, 2013
- Granted
- December 15, 2015
- Expires
- May 9, 2033
- Assignee
- MIKLÓSNÉ JÓZSA
- Inventor
- MIKLÓSNÉ JÓZSA
Abstract
A new cultivar of Prunus laurocerasus , ‘Zita’, characterized by its dark green glossy mature leaves and young leaves that are bronze red, its bushy spreading mounded plant habit; reaching about 0.8 m in height and 2 m in width, its slow growth rate, its good disease resistance, and its hardiness at least in U.S.D.A. Zones 6 to 9.
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 Prunus plant named ‘Zita’ as herein illustrated and described.
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