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US Plant Patent PP31301

Purple Illusion

Veronica plant named ‘Purple Illusion’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends March 6, 2039.

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 PP31301, the photograph of Purple Illusion printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP31301, 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
PP31301
Filed
March 6, 2019
Granted
December 31, 2019
Expires
March 6, 2039
Inventor
HANSEN HANS A

Abstract

The new and distinct cultivar of ornamental spike speedwell plant, Veronica spicata ‘Purple Illusion’, with short habit, stiff, upright, branched, dense spikes rosy-purple flowers beginning in late spring and continuing for up to five weeks above deep green foliage. 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 ‘Purple Illusion’, as herein described and illustrated.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP31301 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.