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US Plant Patent PP15718

Balazcherd

Verbena plant named ‘Balazcherd’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired January 23, 2024. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on December 19, 2023. This patent earned 35 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP15718, the photograph of Balazcherd printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP15718, 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
PP15718
Filed
December 19, 2003
Granted
April 12, 2005
Expires
January 23, 2024
Assignee
BALL HORTICULTURAL CO
Inventor
TREES SCOTT C

Abstract

A new and distinct cultivar of Verbena plant named ‘Balazcherd’ characterized by its red-colored flowers, cleft, dark green-colored foliage, basal branching character, and mounded and trailing 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 Verbena plant named ‘Balazcherd’, substantially, as herein shown and described, which: 1. Exhibits red-colored flowers, 2. Forms cleft, dark green-colored foliage, 3. Exhibits a good basal branching character, and 4. Exhibits a mounded and trailing growth habit.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP15718 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.