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US Plant Patent PP26463

Suntapimabai

Verbena plant named ‘Suntapimabai’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends July 13, 2034.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on November 15, 2033. This patent earned 240 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP26463, the photograph of Suntapimabai printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP26463, 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
PP26463
Filed
November 15, 2013
Granted
March 8, 2016
Expires
July 13, 2034
Inventor
MISATO TOMOYA

Abstract

A new and distinct cultivar of Verbena plant named ‘Suntapimabai’, characterized by its semi-upright and mounding plant habit; vigorous growth habit; freely branching habit; early and freely flowering habit; and intense purple violet-colored flowers that are held above and beyond the foliar plane.

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

It is claimed: 1. A new and distinct Verbena plant named ‘Suntapimabai’ as illustrated and described.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP26463 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.