Lily plant named Sorbonne

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired July 19, 2019. 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.

Figure 3 of US plant patent PP15886, the photograph of Lily plant named Sorbonne printed in the patent.

Figure 3 from US Plant Patent PP15886, 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

PP15886

Filed

July 19, 1999

Granted

July 19, 2005

Expires

July 19, 2019

Assignee

VLETTER & DEN HAAN BEHEER B V

Inventor

VAN DER VOORT CEES A

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 cultivar of Lily plant named ‘Sorbonne’ characterized by having soft, pinkish-red color, white flower tips, upright flowers, and vigorous growth habit.

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

1. A new and distinct cultivar of Lily plant named ‘Sorbonne’ having a vigorous growth habitat and upright, pink flowers, as illustrated and described herein.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP15886 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.