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US Plant Patent PP15760

Arbena

Verbena×hybrida plant named ‘Arbena’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired April 22, 2024. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on March 8, 2024. This patent earned 45 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP15760, the photograph of Arbena printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP15760, 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
PP15760
Filed
March 8, 2004
Granted
May 10, 2005
Expires
April 22, 2024
Assignee
SYNGENTA SEEDS BV
Inventor
STEMKENS HENRICUS

Abstract

A new and distinct variety of Verbena plant particularly distinguished by its bicolor flower, red in the center of the flower towards pink on the edge, very early flowering and a spreading habit that is first semi-erect and later spreading.

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

1. A new and distinct variety of Verbena plant, substantially as herein illustrated and described, characterized particularly as to novelty by larger bicolor flowers than other Verbena plants, which are colored from red in the center towards pink on the edge, which appear earlier on the plant, and a growing habit that is first semi-erect but later spreading.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP15760 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.