US Plant Patent PP17291
Petlavve
Petunia plant named ‘Petlavve’
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired October 12, 2025. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on September 12, 2025. This patent earned 30 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

The record
- Patent number
- PP17291
- Filed
- September 12, 2005
- Granted
- December 19, 2006
- Expires
- October 12, 2025
- Assignee
- SYNGENTA SEEDS BV
- Inventor
- OUD JOHANNES SIMON NICOLAAS
Abstract
A new and distinct cultivar of Petunia plant named ‘Petlavve’ characterized by its trailing, outwardly spreading and mounded plant habit, freely branching habit, freely flowering habit, single flowers that are lavender in color with darker lavender-colored venation, and good garden performance.
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 Petunia plant named ‘Petlavve’, as substantially illustrated and described herein.
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