US Plant Patent PP10890
Mongen
Lantana plant named `Mongen`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired August 28, 2017. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on September 18, 2017, but this patent ends 21 days earlier — a terminal disclaimer gives term back. A source that calculates twenty years from filing would tell you this plant is still protected when it is already free.
The record
- Patent number
- PP10890
- Filed
- September 18, 1997
- Granted
- May 11, 1999
- Expires
- August 28, 2017
- Assignee
- RUITER S NIEUWE ROSEN B V DE
- Inventor
- AMMERLAAN P G M
Abstract
A new and distinct selection of trailing Lantana which shall be referred hereinafter as Lantana sellowiana cultivar `Mongen`. Lantana sellowiana cultivar `Mongen` differs distinctively from other Lantana sellowiana plants by its unique variegated leaves and slower growth habit.
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I claim: 1. A new and distinct Lantana plant as substantially shown and described herein, that is characterized particularly as a novelty by the unique
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