US Plant Patent PP16789

Mickaela

Euonymus plant named ‘Mickaela’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired April 12, 2025. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on March 5, 2025. This patent earned 38 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP16789, the photograph of Mickaela printed in the patent. — Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP16789, 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: PP16789
Filed: March 5, 2005
Granted: July 11, 2006
Expires: April 12, 2025
Assignee: WITTEMAN & CO
Inventor: FARRELL VAL

Abstract

A new and distinct cultivar of Euonymus plant named ‘Mickaela’, characterized by its uniform, compact, mounded and procumbent plant habit; freely branching growth habit; and distinct yellow and green variegated leaves.

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 Euonymus plant named ‘Mickaela’, as illustrated and described.

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