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US Plant Patent PP16736

Black Jack

Sedum plant named ‘Black Jack’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired February 25, 2025. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on December 1, 2024. This patent earned 86 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP16736, the photograph of Black Jack printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP16736, 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
PP16736
Filed
December 1, 2004
Granted
June 27, 2006
Expires
February 25, 2025
Assignee
WALTERS GARDENS INC
Inventor
VAN DER KOLK JERRY W

Abstract

Sedum ‘Black Jack’ is a new and distinct plant cultivar of Stonecrop having large dark-mahogany leaves with stiff upright stems and long-lasting wine-colored flowers valuable for landscaping, potted plant, or cut flower.

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

1. I claim the new and distinct variety of Stonecrop plant, Sedum hybrid ‘Black Jack’, essentially as herein described and illustrated, having large dark-mahogany leaves with stiff upright stems and long-lasting wine-colored flowers valuable for landscaping, potted plant, or cut flower.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP16736 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.