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.

The record
- Patent number
- PP31301
- Filed
- March 6, 2019
- Granted
- December 31, 2019
- Expires
- March 6, 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 ‘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.
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