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US Plant Patent PP14538

Sambhav

Mint plant named ‘Sambhav’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired January 18, 2020. 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.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP14538, the photograph of Sambhav printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP14538, reproduced as printed. Photographs in a plant patent are taken by the applicant. Reproduction of the patent document is permitted; the image is shown whole and uncropped for that reason.

The record

Patent number
PP14538
Filed
January 18, 2000
Granted
February 17, 2004
Expires
January 18, 2020
Inventor
KHANUJA SUMAN PREET SINGH; SHASANY AJIT KUMAR; DHAWAN SUNITA; DAROKAR MAHENDRA PANDURANG; SATAPATHY SARITA; KUMAR TIRUPPADIRIPULIYUR RANGA; SAIKIA DHARMENDRA; PATRA NIRMAL KUMAR; BAHL JANAK RAJ; TRIPATHY ARUN KUMAR; KUMAR SUSHIL

Abstract

The present invention relates to a novel, insect tolerant, high yielding essential oil and menthol yielding mint plant named 'Sambhav', which is a cultivar of Mentha arvensis L.. The mint plant of the present invention has been developed as a result of planned experiments which devised a procedure for early selection of somaclonal variants at the in vitro stage of the variety of Mentha arvensis.

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 Mentha arvensis plant, as herein illustrated and described.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP14538 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.