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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.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP26206, the photograph of Zita printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP26206, 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
PP26206
Filed
May 9, 2013
Granted
December 15, 2015
Expires
May 9, 2033
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.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP26206 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.