US Plant Patent PP27252
PIIL-I
Lantana plant named ‘PIIL-I’
UNDER PATENT
Still under patent. Protection ends March 6, 2035.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on September 12, 2034. This patent earned 175 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

The record
- Patent number
- PP27252
- Filed
- September 12, 2014
- Granted
- October 11, 2016
- Expires
- March 6, 2035
- Assignee
- PLANT INTRODUCTIONS INC
- Inventor
- HELVICK RHONDA; MCBEE OREN; GRIFFITH MARK; BEASLEY JEFF; DIRR MICHAEL A
Abstract
A new and distinct cultivar of Lantana plant named ‘PIIL-I’, characterized by its low growing, layered and spreading growth habit; leathery, scabrous, lustrous dark green foliage; continuous flowering; and dark yellow flower buds that open to dark yellow and age to orange and eventually to orange-red. There are no other cultivars of Lantana with this combination of characteristics known to the inventor.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
We claim: 1. A new and distinct Lantana plant named ‘PIIL-I’, as illustrated and described herein.
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