US Plant Patent PP14926

Edge of Night

Zantedeschia plant named ‘Edge of Night’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired November 23, 2022. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on August 15, 2022. This patent earned 100 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP14926, the photograph of Edge of Night printed in the patent. — Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP14926, 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: PP14926
Filed: August 15, 2002
Granted: June 22, 2004
Expires: November 23, 2022
Assignee: TERRA NOVA NURSERIES INC
Inventor: HEIMS DANIEL M; PATTERSON FRANK

Abstract

A new and distinct Zantedeschia plant named ‘Edge of Night’, having striking, extremely dark purple, almost black, spathes, leaf margins and petioles.

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 variety of Zantedeschia plant substantially as shown and described.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP14926 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.