US Plant Patent PP13403

Dulcena

Verbena plant named ‘Dulcena’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired April 29, 2021. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on March 28, 2021. This patent earned 32 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP13403, the photograph of Dulcena printed in the patent. — Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP13403, 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: PP13403
Filed: March 28, 2001
Granted: December 24, 2002
Expires: April 29, 2021
Assignee: SYNGENTA SEEDS BV
Inventor: STEMKENS HENRICUS G W

Abstract

A new Verbena plant particularly distinguished by its light blue flower, early flowering, and with a 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.

We claim: 1. A new and distinct variety of Verbena plant, substantially as herein illustrated and described, characterised particularly as to novelty by larger light blue flowers than other Verbena plants, which appear earlier on the plant in a larger number, and a growing habit that is more compact.

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