US Plant Patent PP17293

SME-2

Gaura plant named ‘SME-2’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired May 29, 2025. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on April 5, 2025. This patent earned 54 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

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The record

Patent number: PP17293
Filed: April 5, 2005
Granted: December 19, 2006
Expires: May 29, 2025
Assignee: EGGLETON STEVEN
Inventor: EGGLETON STEVEN

Abstract

A new cultivar of Gaura plant named ‘SME-2’ characterized by dense, upright habit, green and purple-red foliage, purple-red flower stalks and rose-pink flowers. In combination these traits set ‘SME-2’ apart from all other existing varieties of Gaura 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 cultivar of Gaura plant named ‘SME-2’ as described and illustrated herein.

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