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US Plant Patent PP35397

TMWG17-18

Weigela plant named ‘TMWG17-18’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends November 22, 2042.

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 PP35397, the photograph of TMWG17-18 printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP35397, 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
PP35397
Filed
November 22, 2022
Granted
September 26, 2023
Expires
November 22, 2042
Inventor
VALIN CHARLES

Abstract

A new cultivar of Weigela plant named ‘TMWG17-18’ that is characterized by its compact mounding growth habit, dark olive-green emerging spring foliage, very dark purple summer foliage which is almost black when exposed to direct sun, red-purple flower buds, and dark pink tubular flowers borne in cymes ranging from eight to fourteen flowers per cyme.

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 Weigela plant named ‘TMWG17-18’ as described and illustrated herein.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP35397 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.