US Plant Patent PP12253
Mercury
Streptocarpus plant named ‘Mercury’
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired May 17, 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
- PP12253
- Filed
- May 17, 2000
- Granted
- December 4, 2001
- Expires
- May 17, 2020
- Assignee
- OGLEVEE LTD
- Inventor
- DREWLOW LYNDON W
Abstract
A Streptocarpus plant named Mercury characterized by the combined characteristics of relatively large and violet colored flowers with white netting which are long-lasting, non-shattering, and continuously bloom under low light conditions of winter and high temperatures of summer.
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 cultivar of Streptocarpus plant named
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