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US Plant Patent PP26593

Sensation Pink

Echinacea plant named ‘Sensation Pink’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends November 23, 2034.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on January 17, 2034. This patent earned 310 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP26593, the photograph of Sensation Pink printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP26593, 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
PP26593
Filed
January 17, 2014
Granted
April 5, 2016
Expires
November 23, 2034
Assignee
VAN NOORT MARCO, MARCO VAN NOORT BREEDING BV
Inventor
VAN NOORT MARCO

Abstract

A new cultivar of hybrid Echinacea named ‘Sensation Pink’, that is characterized by its healthy, upright, and consistently shaped plant habit, its densely pubescent stems that are dark gray-orange in color, its inflorescences with ray florets that are bright pink in color and held at a consistent angle to the disk, and its flowering at a young age requiring only 4.5 months to develop into a branched flowering plant from tissue culture.

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 Echinacea plant named ‘Sensation Pink’ as herein illustrated and described.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP26593 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.