US Plant Patent PP17714

Carpin

Verbena plant named ‘Carpin’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired December 12, 2025. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on December 8, 2025. This patent earned 4 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP17714, the photograph of Carpin printed in the patent. — Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP17714, 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: PP17714
Filed: December 8, 2005
Granted: May 8, 2007
Expires: December 12, 2025
Assignee: SYNGENTA SEEDS BV
Inventor: STEMKENS HENRICUS G W

Abstract

A new and distinct variety of Verbena plant, substantially as herein illustrated and described, characterized particularly as to novelty by its rose flowers, that turn to light pink when the flower matures, early flowering and a habit that is very compact 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 cultivar of Verbena plant named ‘Carpin,’ as substantially illustrated and described herein.

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