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US Plant Patent PP17445

ScolK1

Coleus plant named ‘ScolK1’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired July 11, 2025. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on June 6, 2025. This patent earned 35 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP17445, the photograph of ScolK1 printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP17445, 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
PP17445
Filed
June 6, 2005
Granted
February 27, 2007
Expires
July 11, 2025
Assignee
PAUL ECKE RANCH
Inventor
DE BONT DIONY

Abstract

A new and distinct cultivar of Coleus plant named ‘ScolK1’, characterized by its compact, upright, outwardly spreading and mounded plant habit; freely branching growth habit; and light green-colored leaves with very dark purple-colored margins, veins and bases and light green-colored midveins and splashes.

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 Coleus plant named ‘ScolK1’, as illustrated and described.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP17445 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.