US Plant Patent PP8645
Erospicata
Low menthol mint plant Mentha spicata L. `Erospicata`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired October 27, 2012. 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
- PP8645
- Filed
- October 27, 1992
- Granted
- March 15, 1994
- Expires
- October 27, 2012
- Assignee
- AROMATICS INC
- Inventor
- STURTZ GEORGE D
Abstract
A novel Mentha spicata mint plant characterized by its resistance to verticillium wilt and mint rust, and an essential oil with a relatively low l-menthol content and high menthone content. The oil, which has at most only minor amounts of piperitone and l-carvone, is characterized by peppermint-like taste and a hot odor.
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 a disease-resistant mint plant, substantially as shown and described, characterized particularly as to novelty by its production of an oil with a relatively low l-menthol content and high menthone content, when compared to the oil of its Mentha spicata parent, and at most only minor amounts of piperitone and l-carvone, said oil having a peppermint-like taste and a hot odor.
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