US Plant Patent PP18225

Pink Diamond

Fittonia plant named ‘Pink Diamond’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired January 22, 2026. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on January 3, 2026. This patent earned 19 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

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The record

Patent number: PP18225
Filed: January 3, 2006
Granted: November 20, 2007
Expires: January 22, 2026
Assignee: SCHOENMAKERS TROPISCHE POTCULT
Inventor: SCHOENMAKERS KEES

Abstract

A new cultivar of Fittonia plant named ‘Pink Diamond’ that is characterized by dark pink leaf veins, wavy green leaf margins and broad ovate to elliptic leaves.

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

1. A new and distinct variety of Fittonia plant named ‘Pink Diamond’ as described and illustrated.

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