US Plant Patent PP9085
Sunmaref TP-C
Verbena plant--`Sunmaref TP-C`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired August 2, 2013. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on April 8, 2014, but this patent ends 249 days earlier — a terminal disclaimer gives term back. A source that calculates twenty years from filing would tell you this plant is still protected when it is already free.
The record
- Patent number
- PP9085
- Filed
- April 8, 1994
- Granted
- March 21, 1995
- Expires
- August 2, 2013
- Assignee
- SUNTORY LTD
- Inventor
- TACHIBANA RYUICHI; TAMURA YUJI; SAKAZAKI USHIO
Abstract
Disclosed herein is a spreading growth habit verbena plant having long stems. The plant has abundant branching and each node in the branches that contacts the ground commonly forms deep-spreading roots. The plant forms numerous flowers in ascending spikes with a great profusion of blooms. The flowers exhibit petals having a purplish red coloration, with a small pale purplish pink eye. The plant is highly resistant to heat, cold, rain, diseases, and pests.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
We claim: 1. A new distinct variety of verbenz plant, substantially as herein illustrated and described, characterized particularly as to novelty by (A) a spreading growth habit with long stems, (B) the formation of abundant branching with each node of said spreading branches that contacts the ground commonly forming deep-spreading roots, (C) the formation of many flowers borne on ascending spikes to create a great profusion of blooms, (D) the formation of flowers that have petals which exhibit a purplish red coloration with a small pale purplish pink eye coloration, and (E) a high resistance to heat, cold, rain, diseases and pests.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP9085 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.