US Plant Patent PP17237

Sutcatrwhi

Sutera plant named ‘Sutcatrwhi’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired May 18, 2025. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on December 1, 2024. This patent earned 168 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP17237, the photograph of Sutcatrwhi printed in the patent. — Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP17237, 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: PP17237
Filed: December 1, 2004
Granted: November 28, 2006
Expires: May 18, 2025
Assignee: SYNGENTA SEEDS BV
Inventor: STEMKENS HENRICUS G W

Abstract

A new and distinct variety of Sutera plant particularly distinguished by its white flowers, earliness to flower, thick stems, heat tolerance and a growing habit that is spreading and trailing.

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 Sutera plant named ‘Sutcatrwhi’, substantially as illustrated and described herein.

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