US Plant Patent PP9411
Sunmaref TP-V
Verbena plant `Sunmaref TP-V`
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 January 6, 2015, but this patent ends 522 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
- PP9411
- Filed
- January 6, 1995
- Granted
- December 26, 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 said 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 vivid purple coloration. 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 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 have petals which exhibit a vivid purple coloration and (E) a high resistance to heat, cold, rain diseases and pests.
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