US Plant Patent PP12452

Spikena

Verbena plant named ‘Spikena’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired August 21, 2020. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on July 13, 2020. This patent earned 39 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 3 of US plant patent PP12452, the photograph of Spikena printed in the patent. — Figure 3 from US Plant Patent PP12452, 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: PP12452
Filed: July 13, 2000
Granted: March 12, 2002
Expires: August 21, 2020
Assignee: NOVARTIS SEED B V
Inventor: STEMKENS HENRICUS G W

Abstract

A new Verbena plant particulary distinguished by its large violet blue flower, early flowering, and a spreading habit.

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 disinct variety of Verbena plant, substantially as herein illustrated and described, characterized particularly as to novelty by larger violet blue flowers than other Verbena plants, which appear earlier on the plant, and a growing habit that is spreading and very vigorous.

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