US Plant Patent PP11231
Morena
Verbena plant named `Morena`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired March 27, 2017. 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.
The record
- Patent number
- PP11231
- Filed
- March 27, 1997
- Granted
- February 22, 2000
- Expires
- March 27, 2017
- Assignee
- NOVARTIS AG
- Inventor
- STEMKENS HENRICUS G W
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of Verbena plant, named Morena, characterized particularly as to novelty by large, early-appearing, vivid pink flowers, and a growth habit that is initially semi-erect but later spreading and hanging.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
What is claimed is: 1. A new and distinct variety of Verbena plant, substantially as herein illustrated and described, characterized particularly as to novelty by large, early-appearing, vivid pink flowers, and a growth habit that is initially semi-erect but later spreading and hanging.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP11231 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.