US Plant Patent PP17082

Blisch

Sutera plant named ‘Blisch’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired December 12, 2023. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on May 5, 2024, but this patent ends 145 days earlier — a terminal disclaimer gives term back. A source that calculates twenty years from filing would tell you this plant is still protected when it is already free.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP17082, the photograph of Blisch printed in the patent. — Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP17082, 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: PP17082
Filed: May 5, 2004
Granted: September 5, 2006
Expires: December 12, 2023
Assignee: SCHMULLING WIHELM
Inventor: SCHMULLING WIHELM

Abstract

A new and distinct Sutera plant named ‘Blisch’ characterized by its large white-colored flowers, dark green-colored foliage and a spreading and trailing growth habit.

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 Sutera cordata named ‘Blisch’ substantially as herein shown and described.

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