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US Plant Patent PP13956

Sweet Dario

Spathiphyllum plant named ‘Sweet Dario’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired February 19, 2022. 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 PP13956, the photograph of Sweet Dario printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP13956, 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
PP13956
Filed
February 19, 2002
Granted
July 8, 2003
Expires
February 19, 2022
Inventor
OLSTHOORN PETRUS C M

Abstract

A new and distinct Spathiphyllum plant named ‘Sweet Dario’ characterized by dark and glossy leaves, high shoots, most shoots producing inflorescences, shell-shaped inflorescences with large spadix.

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 Spathiphyllum plant named ‘Sweet Dario’, substantially as illustrated and described herein.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP13956 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.