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US Plant Patent PP25988

Tough Love

Tradescantia plant named ‘Tough Love’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends May 30, 2034.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on February 5, 2034. This patent earned 114 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP25988, the photograph of Tough Love printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP25988, 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
PP25988
Filed
February 5, 2014
Granted
October 13, 2015
Expires
May 30, 2034
Assignee
CHICAGOLAND GROWS INC, AULT JAMES R
Inventor
AULT JAMES R

Abstract

A new hybrid cultivar of Tradescantia , ‘Tough Love’ that is characterized by its very compact plant habit reaching an average of 23 cm in height after two years of growth, its leaves that are held upright to horizontal and straight to arching in aspect, its foliage that is very strong, leathery in texture, and pubescent along the margins and on both surfaces, its pedicels, flower buds, and leaves that are densely pubescent, its flowers that are vivid red-purple in color, its drought tolerance remaining evergreen throughout the summer, and its resistance to rust.

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 a Tradescantia hybrid plant named ‘Tough Love’ substantially as herein illustrated and described.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP25988 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.