US Plant Patent PP17416

Bricutts

Hibiscus plant named ‘Bricutts’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired July 4, 2025. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on June 14, 2025. This patent earned 20 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

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The record

Patent number: PP17416
Filed: June 14, 2005
Granted: February 13, 2007
Expires: July 4, 2025
Assignee: SPRING MEADOW NURSERY INC
Inventor: PINEL PASCAL

Abstract

A new and distinct cultivar of Hibiscus plant named ‘Bricutts’, characterized by its upright plant habit; freely branching habit; dense and bushy growth habit; and numerous, large, semi-double and white-colored flowers with red purple-colored centers and basal venation and numerous stamenoid petaloids.

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 Hibiscus plant named ‘Bricutts’, as illustrated and described.

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