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US Plant Patent PP24280

Lemon Merinque

Baptisia plant named ‘Lemon Merinque’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends December 22, 2031.

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 PP24280, the photograph of Lemon Merinque printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP24280, 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
PP24280
Filed
December 22, 2011
Granted
March 4, 2014
Expires
December 22, 2031
Inventor
HANSEN HANS ANDREW

Abstract

A new cultivar of interspecific Baptisia , ‘Lemon Merinque’, characterized by its flowers that are yellow in color on erect flower stems with a charcoal colored overlay, its densely branched, uniform and upright plant habit and its vigorous growth rate.

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

It is claimed: 1. A new and distinct cultivar of Baptisia plant named ‘Lemon Merinque’ as herein illustrated and described.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP24280 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.