Patents Examined by Susan B. McCormick-Ewoldt
  • Shrub rose plant named ‘KORgeleflo’
    Patent number: PP21467
    Abstract: A new and distinct variety of rose with long lasting, yellow flowers, and attractive foliage with good disease resistance. It exhibits spreading growth with abundant flowers. The new variety propagates well from cuttings and by grafting. This new and distinct variety has shown to be uniform and stable in the resulting generations from asexual propagation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2010
    Assignee: W. Kordes' Söhne Rosenachulen GmbH & Co KG
    Inventor: Tim-Hermann Kordes
  • Miniature rose plant named ‘KORsmisu’
    Patent number: PP21469
    Abstract: A new and distinct variety of miniature rose with long lasting, novel yellow flowers, and dark green and attractive foliage. It exhibits compact, uniform growth and flowering under greenhouse conditions when grown as a potted floral plant. The new variety propagates well from cuttings and by grafting. This new and distinct variety has shown to be uniform and stable in the resulting generations from asexual propagation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2010
    Assignee: W. Kordes' Söhne Rosenschulen GmbH & Co KG
    Inventor: Wilhelm Kordes
  • Hybrid tea rose plant named ‘KORpenparo’
    Patent number: PP21471
    Abstract: A new and distinct variety of rose with long lasting, novel cream white flowers, and attractive foliage with good disease resistance. It exhibits uniform, upright to bushy growth with abundant flowers. The new variety propagates well from cuttings and by grafting. This new and distinct variety has shown to be uniform and stable in the resulting generations from asexual propagation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2010
    Assignee: W. Kordes' Söhne Rosenschulen GmbH & Co KG
    Inventor: Tim-Hermann Kordes
  • plant named ‘Huron Solstice’
    Patent number: PP21498
    Abstract: The new and distinct cultivar of ornamental Switch Grass, Panicum virgatum ‘Huron Solstice’, with erect culms and becoming deep wine red early in the season and light airy flowers that persist into winter. ‘Huron Solstice’ is suitable as a potted plant, for multi-seasonal mass or specimen landscaping, and for cut flower arrangements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2010
    Inventor: Martin Quinn
  • plant named ‘HYDfour’
    Patent number: PP21513
    Abstract: A new Hydrangea plant, which has abundant, pink colored double flowers and attractive foliage. The variety successfully propagates from softwood cuttings and is suitable for year round production in commercial glass houses as a flowering pot plant. This new and distinct variety has shown to be uniform and stable in the resulting generations from asexual propagation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2010
    Inventor: Peter Fotinos
  • plant named ‘Florijade’
    Patent number: PP21515
    Abstract: A new cultivar of Dianthus plant named ‘FLORIJADE’ is characterized, inter alia, by pronounced spray habit, perennial and profuse bloom, and green foliage. Dianthus ‘FLORIJADE’ is suitable for use, for example, as a flowering plant in pots, containers, window boxes, and the garden, but is primarily suited for the production of cut flowers. Dianthus ‘FLORIJADE’ is not hardy and is typically grown in a glasshouse. These traits set ‘FLORIJADE’ apart from all existing varieties, lines, strains, or sports of Dianthus. In particular, Dianthus ‘FLORIJADE’ has bright purple/violet flowers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2010
    Assignee: International Flower Developments Pty Ltd.
    Inventor: Filippa Brugliera
  • plant name ‘Ponto's Queen of the Nile’
    Patent number: PP21522
    Abstract: A new and distinct selection of Agapanthus africanus (commonly known as Lily of the Nile) which herein is referred to as Agapanthus africanus cv. ‘Ponto's Queen of the Nile.’ ‘Ponto's Queen of the Nile’ differs from its parent plant, Agapanthus africanus Queen Ann, by possessing a gold leaf with a dark green stripe in the middle rather than an all-green leaf. The flower stock is green with a gold stripe as well.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2010
    Assignee: Ponto Nursery, Inc.
    Inventor: William H. Ponto
  • plant named ‘Flammen’
    Patent number: PP21527
    Abstract: A new and distinct Salvia cultivar named ‘FLAMMEN’ is disclosed, characterized by a long inflorescence, large individual flower size and early flowering. ‘FLAMMEN’ is highly floriferous and has an upright plant habit. The new variety is a Salvia, normally produced as an outdoor garden or container plant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2010
    Inventor: Catherine Bernabe
  • rose plant named ‘Meijecycka’
    Patent number: PP21532
    Abstract: A new and distinct Floribunda rose plant is provided which abundantly and nearly continuously forms attractive yellow cup-shaped blossoms commonly displaying approximately 5 to 7 petals. The growth habit is bushy and the adult plant commonly assumes a generally hemispherical configuration. The plant exhibits very strong vegetation, with green semi-glossy foliage that contrasts nicely with the yellow bossom coloration. The blossoms display no fragrance. The new variety is well suited for growing as attractive ornamentation in parks and gardens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2010
    Assignee: CP Delaware, Inc.
    Inventor: Alain A. Meilland
  • plant named ‘Strawberry Swirl’
    Patent number: PP21542
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of winter hardy hibiscus plant named “Strawberry Swirl” is the result of a unique hybridization. This new and distinct cultivar is characterized primarily to its novelty by, its extreme cold hardiness to Zone 4, large, pinwheel-shaped, pink and white flowers and its “maple-shaped” green foliage, compactness of about 3 feet, its vigorous and uniform breaking habit and its floriferous nature from midsummer until frost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2010
    Inventors: Gretchen Angela Zwetzig, David Whitman Fleming, Gretchen Zwetzig, legal representative
  • plant named ‘Angel Wing’
    Patent number: PP21543
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Polygonatum plant named ‘Angel Wing’, characterized by its compact and upright plant habit; freely clumping and vigorous growth habit; and variegated leaves with relatively wide white-colored margins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2010
    Inventor: Roy Herold
  • plant named ‘Pluenn’
    Patent number: PP21550
    Abstract: A new and distinct Salvia cultivar named ‘PLUENN’ is disclosed, characterized by Bright pink flowers, large individual flower size and early flowering. ‘PLUENN’ is highly floriferous and has a compact, upright plant habit. The new variety is a Salvia, normally produced as an outdoor garden or container plant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2010
    Inventor: Catherine Bernabe
  • Strawberry plant named ‘DrisStrawThirteen’
    Patent number: PP21559
    Abstract: This invention relates to a new and distinct cultivar of strawberry plant named ‘DrisStrawThirteen.’ The new cultivar is primarily characterized by having large-sized, fruit with strong sweetness and weak acidity and having a plant with resistance to powdery mildew and moderate resistance to Strawberry Mottle Virus, wind, drought, high temperatures, high pH, high soil salt levels and water logging.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2010
    Assignee: Driscoll Strawberry Associates, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael D. Ferguson, Terrance C. Moran
  • plant named ‘Yoencino’
    Patent number: PP21563
    Abstract: A new Chrysanthemum plant named ‘Yoencino,’ particularly distinguished by the medium sized anemone flower-type with spoon shaped bright greyed-red ray florets, good floriferousness, and small dark foliage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2010
    Assignee: Syngenta Crop Protection AG
    Inventor: Peter Wain
  • plant named ‘Agbapur’
    Patent number: PP21565
    Abstract: A new Ageratum plant named ‘Agbapur’ particularly distinguished by its purple red flower color, early and continuous flowering, and its compact, upright, mounded and well branched growing habit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2010
    Assignee: Syngenta Crop Protection AG
    Inventor: Monica Maria Adelheid Sanders
  • Citrus tree named ‘Morgan Sunrise Navel’
    Patent number: PP21568
    Abstract: A new and distinct variety of citrus tree (Citrus sinensis (L.) Osbeck), which has the variety denomination ‘Morgan Sunrise Navel’, and which produces a sweet fruit which is mature for harvesting and shipment approximately February 10 to April 15, under the ecological conditions prevailing in the San Joaquin Valley of central California.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2010
    Inventor: Billy Mac Morgan
  • Mandarin orange tree named ‘GARBI’
    Patent number: PP21580
    Abstract: A new and distinct triploid Citrus hybrida cultivar is provided that is the product of controlled cross-pollination of two diploid parental plants. The new cultivar forms attractive obloid-shaped late-maturing substantially seedless fruit having an excellent mildly acidic flavor and a pleasant aroma. The leaves are dark green in coloration. The growth habit is vigorous and drooping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2010
    Assignee: Instituto Valenciano De Investigaciones Agrarias (IVIA)
    Inventors: Luis Navarro, José Juárez, Pablo Aleza, José Cuenca, José Manuel Julve, José Antonio Pina
  • Mandarin orange tree named ‘Safor’
    Patent number: PP21581
    Abstract: A new and distinct triploid Citrus hybrida cultivar is provided that is the product of controlled cross-pollination of two diploid parental plants. The new cultivar forms attractive seedless obloid-shaped, medium-late-maturing fruit with a convex base having an excellent mildly acidic flavor. The leaves are dark green in coloration. The growth habit is vigorous and erect-drooping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2010
    Assignee: Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Agrarias (IVIA)
    Inventors: Luis Navarro, José Juárez, Pablo Aleza, José Cuenca, José Manuel Julve, José Antonio Pina
  • plant named ‘BINSUGPLU’
    Patent number: PP21586
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Ajuga plant named ‘BINSUGPLU’ which exhibits a compact mat-forming habit comprised of short internodes and contrasting foliage as between the deep pink to purple color of the newly emerged leaves and the gray-green color of the mature leaves. In addition, the leaves of ‘BINSUGPLU’ are rounded and thick, and exhibit a slight pewter-like metallic sheen. In combination, these traits set ‘BINSUGPLU’ apart from all other existing varieties of Ajuga known to the inventor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2010
    Inventor: Mike Tristram
  • plant named ‘Bethshebalee’
    Patent number: PP21587
    Abstract: A new and distinct Gaillardia grandiflora cultivar named ‘Bethshebalee’ is disclosed, characterized by full flowers, with many petals, and producing many flowers per plant. The new variety is a Gaillardia, suitable for outdoor and container gardens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2010
    Inventor: Jean Sorenson