US Plant Patent PP16312

Cajun Blue

Scaevola plant named ‘Cajun Blue’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired February 26, 2025. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on January 22, 2025. This patent earned 35 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

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The record

Patent number: PP16312
Filed: January 22, 2005
Granted: March 7, 2006
Expires: February 26, 2025
Assignee: DUPONT NURSERY INC
Inventor: DUPONT JR ROBERT J

Abstract

A new and distinct cultivar of Scaevola plant named Cajun Blue, characterized by its compact and trailing plant habit; freely branching habit; dense and bushy plant form; freely and early flowering habit; long flowering period; and blue violet-colored flowers.

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

1. A new and distinct Scaevola plant named Cajun Blue, as illustrated and described.

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