US Plant Patent PP17721

Agbic

Ageratum plant named ‘Agbic’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired October 28, 2025. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on July 28, 2025. This patent earned 92 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

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The record

Patent number: PP17721
Filed: July 28, 2005
Granted: May 15, 2007
Expires: October 28, 2025
Assignee: SYNGENTA SEEDS BV
Inventor: SANDERS MONICA MARIA ADELHEID

Abstract

A new Ageratum plant, characterized particularly as to novelty by its bicolor purple and violet flowers, early flowering, strongly branched plant habit and compact 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 ‘Agbic,’ as substantially illustrated and described herein.

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