US Plant Patent PP14396

South of the Border

Coleus plant named ‘South of the Border’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired November 8, 2022. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

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 PP14396, the photograph of South of the Border printed in the patent. — Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP14396, 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: PP14396
Filed: November 8, 2002
Granted: December 23, 2003
Expires: November 8, 2022
Inventor: REPP RALPH

Abstract

A new and distinct cultivar of Coleus plant named ‘South of the Border’, characterized by its upright and mounded plant habit; pale yellow and green bi-colored leaves; and numerous small violet blue-colored flowers arranged on terminal verticillasters.

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 Coleus plant named ‘South of the Border’, as illustrated and described.

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