US Plant Patent PP9197
Hillary's Sweet Lemon` Mint
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired October 26, 2013. 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.
The record
- Patent number
- PP9197
- Filed
- October 26, 1993
- Granted
- July 11, 1995
- Expires
- October 26, 2013
- Assignee
- WESTERFIELD JAMES E
- Inventor
- WESTERFIELD JAMES E
No cultivar name of record
This patent does not name the plant, which is unusual for its date — by the mid-1990s nearly every plant patent carried a cultivar name. The grant identifies this one by its number and by a written description instead.
Nothing here is missing from our records: the patent itself states no name. Where one exists we show it, and we do not invent one.
Abstract
A new and distinct hybrid of mint plant (Dulcia Citreus), the plant forms an attractive mound of leaves, and the stems of the plant tend to develop side-branching, with the tips of the stems providing multitudinous flowering of spaced clusters of lavender color blossoms, which gradually bloom outwardly towards the tip of each stem during their growing season; the leaves exhibit a dark green color, are heart shaped, and are typical labiatae, in opposing position.
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 variety of mint plant (Dulcia Citreus) named Hillary's Sweet Lemon Mint, characterized by the following combination of characteristics: (a) forms a bushy plant in proximity with the ground and extends rather mounded upwardly in its formation, (b) exhibits strong growth habit, (c) has elongated stems that develop side-branching, (d) and which flowers along the tip of the stem into a cone-shape formation, with the flowers being multitudinous, and arranged in clusters, upwardly along the length of the stem, and gradually blooming outwardly towards the tip of the stem, and (e) exhibits good sustaining qualities throughout flowering, substantially as shown and described.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP9197 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.