US Plant Patent PP16336

Sem

Sorbaria plant named ‘Sem’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired September 22, 2024. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on June 28, 2024. This patent earned 86 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

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The record

Patent number: PP16336
Filed: June 28, 2004
Granted: March 14, 2006
Expires: September 22, 2024
Assignee: WITTEMAN & CO
Inventor: NOUWS JOANNIS JACOBUS PETRUS

Abstract

A new and distinct cultivar of Sorbaria plant named ‘Sem’, characterized by its compact, upright and outwardly spreading plant habit; bronze-colored developing foliage; and green-colored fully expanded foliage.

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 Sorbaria plant named ‘Sem’, as illustrated and described.

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