US Plant Patent PP16418

Darkeyena

Verbena plant named ‘Darkeyena’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired May 8, 2025. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on December 2, 2024. This patent earned 157 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP16418, the photograph of Darkeyena printed in the patent. — Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP16418, 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: PP16418
Filed: December 2, 2004
Granted: April 4, 2006
Expires: May 8, 2025
Assignee: SYNGENTA SEEDS BV
Inventor: STEMKENS HENRICUS G W

Abstract

A new and distinct variety of Verbena plant particularly distinguished by its deep blue flower with a white eye, early flowering and a habit that is 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 named ‘Darkeyena’, substantially as illustrated and described herein.

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