US Plant Patent PP15989

Sea Foam

Herniaria glabra plant named ‘Sea Foam’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired October 18, 2024. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on July 20, 2024. This patent earned 90 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

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The record

Patent number: PP15989
Filed: July 20, 2004
Granted: September 20, 2005
Expires: October 18, 2024
Assignee: MACKENZIE DAVID
Inventor: MACKENZIE DAVID S

Abstract

A new cultivar of Hernaria glabra or rupturewort plant named ‘Sea Foam’, characterized by green centered leaves that are edged in creamy yellow.

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

1. A new and distinct Hernaria glabra plant named Sea Foam, as herein described and illustrated.

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