US Plant Patent PP17177

Kinku Saku

Rhododendron plant named ‘Kinku Saku’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired March 5, 2025. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on February 10, 2025. This patent earned 23 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP17177, the photograph of Kinku Saku printed in the patent. — Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP17177, 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: PP17177
Filed: February 10, 2005
Granted: October 31, 2006
Expires: March 5, 2025
Assignee: HORTIBREED NV
Inventor: VANDERHAEGEN JOHAN

Abstract

A new cultivar of Rhododendron plant named ‘Kinku Saku’ that is characterized by long linear dark shiny green leaves, good leaf retention, long palmately compound shaped single pink flowers and long flower life.

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 Rhododendron plant named ‘Kinku Saku’ as described and illustrated.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP17177 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.