US Plant Patent PP16738

Sugar and Spice

Tiarella plant named ‘Sugar and Spice’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired June 10, 2025. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on March 16, 2025. This patent earned 86 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

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The record

Patent number: PP16738
Filed: March 16, 2005
Granted: June 27, 2006
Expires: June 10, 2025
Assignee: TERRA NOVA NURSERIES INC
Inventor: GOSSETT GARY J

Abstract

A new and distinct cultivar of Tiarella plant characterized by its medium size, mounding habit, pink to white flowers, and pinnately divided leaves with a broad dark band down each division.

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 Tiarella plant herein illustrated and described.

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