US Plant Patent PP12578

Scarlena

Verbena plant named ‘Scarlena’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired August 14, 2020. 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 3 of US plant patent PP12578, the photograph of Scarlena printed in the patent. — Figure 3 from US Plant Patent PP12578, 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: PP12578
Filed: August 14, 2000
Granted: April 23, 2002
Expires: August 14, 2020
Assignee: NOVARTIS SEEDS B V
Inventor: STEMKENS HENRICUS G W

Abstract

A new Verbena plant particularly distinguished by its large scarlet 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.

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 larger scarlet flowers than other Verbena plants, which appear earlier on the plant, and a growing habit that is first semi-erect, but later spreading and hanging.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP12578 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.