US Plant Patent PP27475
Ecuadorian Sativa
Cannabis plant named ‘Ecuadorian Sativa’
UNDER PATENT
Still under patent. Protection ends April 30, 2032.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on March 13, 2030. This patent earned 779 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

The record
- Patent number
- PP27475
- Filed
- March 13, 2010
- Granted
- December 20, 2016
- Expires
- April 30, 2032
- Inventor
- KUBBY STEVEN WYNN
Abstract
Unique herbaceous annual ‘ Cannabis sativa ’ female plants, having numerous glandular flowers in a congested and elongated inflorescence, hollow stems a characteristic of the fiber-producing strains of ‘ Cannabis sativa ssp. sativa ’ but absent in strains of ‘ Cannabis sativa ssp. indica .’ The plants are intoxicating, characteristic of ‘ Cannabis sativa , ssp. indica ’, but absent in subspecies sativa . The new strain has energizing and motivating psychoactive effects as opposed to the lethargy normally associated with ssp. indica and show hypotensive effects. Morphologically, the plants have a few branched hairs on the stem that are not characteristic of the species, but are ordinary in most other respects.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
It is claimed: 1. A new and distinct cultivar of ‘ Cannabis ’ plant, as shown and described.
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