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US Plant Patent PP32359

Lavender Lightsaber

Veronica plant named ‘Lavender Lightsaber’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends April 13, 2039.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on February 1, 2039. This patent earned 71 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP32359, the photograph of Lavender Lightsaber printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP32359, 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
PP32359
Filed
February 1, 2019
Granted
October 20, 2020
Expires
April 13, 2039
Assignee
WALTERS GARDENS INC, HANSEN HANS A
Inventor
HANSEN HANS A

Abstract

The new and distinct cultivar of ornamental spike speedwell plant, Veronica spicata ‘Lavender Lightsaber’, with upright narrow habit, stiff, upright, freely-branched spikes producing soft lavender flowers beginning in late spring and continuing for up to eight weeks. The new plant is useful in the landscape as a specimen, en masse, as a container plant or as a cut flower.

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

I claim: 1. A new and distinct cultivar of ornamental Spike Speedwell plant, Veronica spicata ‘Lavender Lightsaber’, as herein described and illustrated.

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