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.

The record
- Patent number
- PP24280
- Filed
- December 22, 2011
- Granted
- March 4, 2014
- Expires
- December 22, 2031
- Assignee
- WALTERS GARDENS INC, HANSEN HANS ANDREW
- 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.
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