US Plant Patent PP9867
Scaevola plant named Fancy
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired January 26, 2016. 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
- PP9867
- Filed
- January 26, 1996
- Granted
- April 22, 1997
- Expires
- January 26, 2016
- Assignee
- J & H WESTHOFF
- Inventor
- WESTHOFF WILHELM
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 distinctive cultivar of Scaevola plant named Fancy, characterized by its symmetrical, spreading and compact growth habit with short internodes; fast-growing long branches; long leaves; early flowering; numerous flowers per plant; weather-resistant and long-lasting flowers; large flower size; intense blue-violet petal color with narrow white band at petals' base and yellow area at top of flower throat; and pleasant fragrance.
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 Scaveola plant named Fancy, as illustrated and described.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP9867 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.