Lobelia plant named Sunlobe Torebu

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends August 11, 2035.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on June 15, 2035. This patent earned 57 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP27859, the photograph of Lobelia plant named Sunlobe Torebu printed in the patent.

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The record

Patent number

PP27859

Filed

June 15, 2015

Granted

April 4, 2017

Expires

August 11, 2035

Assignee

SUNTORY FLOWERS LTD, MIYAZAKI KIYOSHI

Inventor

MIYAZAKI KIYOSHI

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 Lobelia plant named ‘Sunlobe Torebu’, characterized by its outwardly spreading plant habit; vigorous growth habit; freely branching habit; dense and bushy plant form; freely flowering habit; relatively large dark violet blue-colored flowers with white-colored centers; and good garden performance.

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 Lobelia plant named ‘Sunlobe Torebu’ as illustrated and described.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP27859 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.