US Plant Patent PP17514

TM9

Zoysiagrass plant ‘TM9’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

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

Twenty years from the filing date would end on September 9, 2024. This patent earned 162 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

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The record

Patent number: PP17514
Filed: September 9, 2004
Granted: March 20, 2007
Expires: February 18, 2025
Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR CO LTD
Inventor: MATSUI KUNIO

Abstract

The present cultivar TM9 ( Zoysia matrella Merr.) advantageously has a growing rate of in terms of plant height less than half as compared with existing cultivars and requires mowing every 20 to 40 days during the summer so as to be maintained in fair condition and allows the amount of fertilizer to be reduced to almost less than half.

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 Zoysia matrella Merr. plant named TM9 illustrated and described in the present invention.

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