US Plant Patent PP15627

Agetis

Ageratum plant named ‘Agetis’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired July 11, 2022. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on January 10, 2022. This patent earned 182 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP15627, the photograph of Agetis printed in the patent. — Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP15627, 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: PP15627
Filed: January 10, 2002
Granted: March 8, 2005
Expires: July 11, 2022
Assignee: SYNGENTA SEEDS BV
Inventor: SANDERS MONICA M A

Abstract

A new Ageratum plant particularly distinguished by its large blue flower, early flowering, nicely branched 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 variety of Ageratum plant, substantially as herein illustrated and described, characterized particularly as to novelty by big blue flowers, which appear early on the plant, which produces no seeds, and has a growing habit that is erect, well branched and vigorous.

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