US Plant Patent PP16263

Creme de Menthe

Alternanthera plant named ‘Creme de Menthe’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired February 9, 2025. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on December 24, 2024. This patent earned 47 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP16263, the photograph of Creme de Menthe printed in the patent. — Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP16263, 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: PP16263
Filed: December 24, 2004
Granted: February 14, 2006
Expires: February 9, 2025
Assignee: ITSAUL PLANTS LLC
Inventor: SAUL ROBERT MARK

Abstract

A new and distinct cultivar of Alternanthera plant named ‘Creme de Menthe’, characterized by its upright and columnar plant habit; freely basal branching habit; bushy and dense growth habit; and green and pale yellow bi-colored leaves.

Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.

1. A new and distinct cultivar of Alternanthera plant named ‘Creme de Menthe’, as illustrated and described.

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