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.

The record
- Patent number
- PP14538
- Filed
- January 18, 2000
- Granted
- February 17, 2004
- Expires
- January 18, 2020
- Assignee
- COUNCIL SCIENT IND RES
- 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.