US Plant Patent PP12279
Vilena
Verbena plant named ‘Vilena’
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired July 13, 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.
The record
- Patent number
- PP12279
- Filed
- July 13, 2000
- Granted
- December 11, 2001
- Expires
- July 13, 2020
- Assignee
- SYNGENTA SEEDS BV
- Inventor
- STEMKENS HENRICUS G W
Abstract
A new Verbena plant particularly distinguished by its violet blue flower, early flowering, feathered leaves, and spreading habit that becomes hanging 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 violet blue flowers, which appear earlier on the plant, feathered foliage and a growing habit that is first spreading but later hanging.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP12279 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.