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US Plant Patent PP15078

Nicolette

Dieffenbachia plant named ‘Nicolette’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired February 19, 2023. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on September 17, 2022. This patent earned 155 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP15078, the photograph of Nicolette printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP15078, 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
PP15078
Filed
September 17, 2002
Granted
August 17, 2004
Expires
February 19, 2023
Assignee
FUTURA PROMOTIONS PTY LTD
Inventor
SPINK GARY

Abstract

‘Nicolette’, a Dieffenbachia cultivar. ‘Nicolette’ is characterized by small size elliptic leaves, moderate to good 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 ‘Nicolette’, as herein

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP15078 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.