US Plant Patent PP13419

Lobena

Verbena plant named ‘Lobena’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired March 28, 2021. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

No term adjustment or disclaimer is recorded against this patent, so this is the full statutory term — twenty years from the filing date.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP13419, the photograph of Lobena printed in the patent. — Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP13419, 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: PP13419
Filed: March 28, 2001
Granted: December 24, 2002
Expires: March 28, 2021
Assignee: SYNGENTA SEEDS BV
Inventor: STEMKENS HENRICUS G W

Abstract

A new Verbena plant particularly distinguished by its large blue violet flower, early flowering, and a semi-erect habit that becomes spreading as plant develops.

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

I claim: 1. A new and distinct variety of Verbena plant, substantially as herein illustrated and described, characterised particularly as to novelty by big blue-violet flowers, which appear earlier on the plant, and a growing habit that is first spreading and later hanging.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP13419 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.