Variegated Illicium

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired January 18, 2023. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on August 13, 2024, but this patent ends 573 days earlier — a terminal disclaimer gives term back. A source that calculates twenty years from filing would tell you this plant is still protected when it is already free.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP16269, the photograph of Variegated Illicium printed in the patent.

Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP16269, 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

PP16269

Filed

August 13, 2004

Granted

February 21, 2006

Expires

January 18, 2023

Assignee

DODD III THOMAS H, DODD THAYRE

Inventor

DODD III THOMAS H; DODD THAYRE

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 new and distinct form of Illicium plant, characterized by its pink flowers are variegated leaves.

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

1. A new and distinct Illicium plant as herein described and illustrated.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP16269 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.