Skip to content
The Patent Garden

Nursery or breeding house

UNIV NORTH CAROLINA STATE

150 US plant patents, granted between 2004 and 2026.

Still under patent — 136 cultivars

Soonest to come off patent first. You may not propagate these for sale until the date shown.

Already in the public domain — 14 cultivars

Most recently freed first. Anyone may propagate and sell these plants — though the name it is sold under may still be a live trademark.