US Plant Patent PP17117

Agalib

Ageratum plant named ‘Agalib’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired August 19, 2025. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on August 18, 2025. This patent earned 1 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

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The record

Patent number: PP17117
Filed: August 18, 2005
Granted: September 26, 2006
Expires: August 19, 2025
Assignee: SYNGENTA SEEDS BV
Inventor: SANDERS MONICA MARIA ADELHEID

Abstract

A new Ageratum plant, characterized particularly as to novelty by large light violet blue flowers, early flowering, freely branching plant habit and vigorous growth.

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 Ageratum houstonianum plant named ‘Agalib,’ as substantially illustrated and described herein.

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