US Plant Patent PP36244
MSB-1017
Bermudagrass plant named ‘MSB-1017’
UNDER PATENT
Still under patent. Protection ends September 20, 2043.
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
- PP36244
- Filed
- September 20, 2023
- Granted
- November 5, 2024
- Expires
- September 20, 2043
- Assignee
- UNIV MISSISSIPPI STATE
- Inventor
- PHILLEY H WAYNE
Abstract
A new Bermudagrass plant particularly distinguished by having a fine leaf texture, a dark green genetic color, reduced seedhead production, fast establishment, high density, and disease resistance leafspot ( Bipolaris cynodontis ), is disclosed.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. A new and distinct cultivar of Bermudagrass Plant Named ‘MSB-1017’ as described and illustrated herein.
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