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US Plant Patent PP16660

Nerium oleander plant - Turner's 7-678

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired December 20, 2024. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on September 27, 2024. This patent earned 84 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP16660, the photograph of Nerium oleander plant - Turner's 7-678 printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP16660, 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
PP16660
Filed
September 27, 2004
Granted
June 13, 2006
Expires
December 20, 2024
Assignee
TURNER SR TED L
Inventor
TURNER SR TED L

No cultivar name of record

This patent does not name the plant, which is unusual for its date — by the mid-1990s nearly every plant patent carried a cultivar name. The grant identifies this one by its number and by a written description instead.

Nothing here is missing from our records: the patent itself states no name. Where one exists we show it, and we do not invent one.

Abstract

A Nerium oleander plant which has a petite and upright and sprawling habit of growth, being particularly characterized by long blooming periods and the unique color of its inflorescence and its habit of growth, the flowers being a dusty rose color with areas of pale yellow in the corona or throat, and which flowers grow in cymes or clusters.

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

1. A new and distinct variety of petite size Nerium oleander plant substantially as shown and described, having an upright and sprawling habit of growth making it especially suitable for hedges, having an ability to be asexually reproduced, having the ability to flower off and on throughout the entire year with long continuous blooming periods, having the ability to grow in full sun or in partial shade, being an excellent greenhouse plant, and being particularly characterized by its petite size combined with the unique color of its inflorescence and its growth habit, and having terminal cymes of flowers which are a dusty rose color with throats or coronas of a pale yellow.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP16660 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.