US Plant Patent PP9119
Lavandula plant named Blue Cushion
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired July 6, 2014. 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
- PP9119
- Filed
- July 6, 1994
- Granted
- April 25, 1995
- Expires
- July 6, 2014
- Assignee
- BLOOMS OF BRESSINGHAM LTD
- Inventor
- SCHOFIELD JOAN I
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 Lavandula plant named `Blue Cushion`, characterized by its dwarf compact habit, profuse blooming in early June continuous into late summer, upstanding flower spikes appearing well above the foliage, and its deep blue flowers which fade first to pale blue and then to grey, giving a distinctive bicolor effect.
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 Lavandula plant named `Blue Cushion`, as illustrated and described.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP9119 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.