US Plant Patent PP14511

Nicole

Dieffenbachia plant named ‘Nicole’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired September 17, 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 PP14511, the photograph of Nicole printed in the patent. — Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP14511, 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: PP14511
Filed: September 17, 2002
Granted: February 3, 2004
Expires: September 17, 2022
Assignee: FUTURA PROMOTIONS PTY LTD
Inventor: SPINK GARY

Abstract

‘Nicole’, a Dieffenbachia cultivar. ‘Nicole’ is characterized by medium size elliptic leaves, strong suckering ability, and short petiole and petiole wing clasping the stem to about the leaf base. Leaves are yellow-green with a green border having a distinctive fish-bone like pattern of yellow-green extending into the border.

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

I claim: 1. A new and distinct cultivar of Dieffenbachia plant named ‘Nicole’, as herein described and illustrated.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP14511 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.