US Plant Patent PP16260

Pesto Perpetuo

Basil plant named ‘Pesto Perpetuo’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired January 7, 2025. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on November 8, 2024. This patent earned 60 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP16260, the photograph of Pesto Perpetuo printed in the patent. — Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP16260, 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: PP16260
Filed: November 8, 2004
Granted: February 14, 2006
Expires: January 7, 2025
Assignee: SUNNY BORDER NURSERIES INC
Inventor: BENNERUP PIERRE

Abstract

A new cultivar of Greek columnar basil for landscape and culinary use, Ocimum×citriodorum ‘Pesto Perpetuo’, characterized by variegated foliage of green centers and white margins and its non-flowering habit enabling year around vegetative propagation.

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 Basil plant named ‘Pesto Perpetuo’ as herein illustrated and described.

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