Cim Indus — plant patent PP16474

Cim Indus

Mint plant named ‘Cim Indus’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired March 30, 2024. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on December 29, 2023. This patent earned 92 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP16474, the photograph of Cim Indus printed in the patent.

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The record

Patent number

PP16474

Filed

December 29, 2003

Granted

April 25, 2006

Expires

March 30, 2024

Assignee

COUNCIL SCIENT IND RES

Inventor

KHANUJA SUMAN PREET SINGH; PATRA NIRMAL KUMAR; SHASANY AJIT KUMAR; KUMAR BIRENDRA; GUPTA SONI; UPADHYAY RAKESH KUMAR; PRIYA TOGARRATI PADMA; SINGH ANIL KUMAR; DAROKAR MAHENDRA PANDURANG; TOMAR VIRENDRA KUMAR SINGH; BAHAL JANAK RAJ; LAL RAJ KISHORI

Abstract

The present invention relates to a new and distinct mint plant of Mentha piperita ‘Cim Indus’, selected through screening, field trial and analysis of monoterpene constituents of the essential oil of the germplasm, possessing the characters of producing high amount of menthofuran ranging between 22 to 30% of total oil content, high amount pulegone ranging between 9.0 to 18% of total oil content, with essential oil content ranging between 0.32 to 0.40% of the total oil content.

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

1. A new and distinct mint plant of Mentha piperita variety ‘Cim Indus’, substantially as illustrated and described herein.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP16474 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.