US Plant Patent PP19738
Sizzle Scissors
Acalypha plant named ‘Sizzle Scissors’
UNDER PATENT
Still under patent. Protection ends May 2, 2028.
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
- PP19738
- Filed
- May 2, 2008
- Granted
- February 17, 2009
- Expires
- May 2, 2028
- Assignee
- AMERINOVA PROPERTIES LLC
- Inventor
- FOUNTAIN BIRDIE L
Abstract
A new and distinct cultivar of Acalypha plant named ‘Sizzle Scissors’, characterized by its compact, rounded, upright and outwardly spreading plant habit; vigorous growth habit; freely branching habit; and deeply and irregularly crenate leaves that are green, pink and red purple in color.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
1. A new and distinct Acalypha plant named ‘Sizzle Scissors’ as illustrated and described.
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