US Plant Patent PP9121
Sunmaref TP-L
Verbena plant `Sunmaref TP-L`
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
- PP9121
- Filed
- April 8, 1994
- Granted
- April 25, 1995
- Expires
- August 2, 2013
- Assignee
- SUNTORY LTD
- Inventor
- TACHIBANA RYUICHI; TAMURA YUJI; SAKAZAKI USHIO
Abstract
Disclosed herein is a decumbent type verbena plant having long stems. The plant has abundant branching wherein each node of the branches the contacts the ground commonly forming deep-spreading roots. The plant forms numerous flowers that appear as ascending spikes in a great profusion of blooms. The flowers exhibit petals having a strong purple color, with a small very pale purple eye. The plant is highly resistant to heat, cold, 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 and distinct variety of verbena 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 exhibit petals having a strong purple coloration with a small very pale purple eye coloration, and (E) a high resistance to heat, cold, rain, diseases, and pests.
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