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US Plant Patent PP17766

KITAJIMA ANGEL TUTU

Catharanthus plant named ‘KITAJIMA ANGEL TUTU’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired October 31, 2025. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on April 1, 2025. This patent earned 213 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP17766, the photograph of KITAJIMA ANGEL TUTU printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP17766, reproduced as printed. Photographs in a plant patent are taken by the applicant. Reproduction of the patent document is permitted; the image is shown whole and uncropped for that reason.

The record

Patent number
PP17766
Filed
April 1, 2005
Granted
May 29, 2007
Expires
October 31, 2025
Assignee
KITAJIMA OSAMU
Inventor
KITAJIMA OSAMU

Abstract

A new cultivar of Catharanthus named ‘KITAJIMA ANGEL TUTU’ that is characterized by sterility, upright habit, dark-green foliage, pale green stems, and profuse pale pink flowers. In combination these traits set ‘KITAJIMA ANGEL TUTU’ apart from all other existing varieties of Catharanthus known to the inventor.

Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.

1. A new and distinct variety of Catharanthus plant named ‘KITAJIMA ANGEL TUTU’ as described and illustrated.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP17766 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.