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US Plant Patent PP17417

Sage85015

Ageratum plant named ‘Sage85015’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired July 3, 2025. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on June 6, 2025. This patent earned 27 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP17417, the photograph of Sage85015 printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP17417, 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
PP17417
Filed
June 6, 2005
Granted
February 13, 2007
Expires
July 3, 2025
Assignee
PAUL ECKE RANCH
Inventor
DE BONT DIONY

Abstract

A new and distinct cultivar of Ageratum plant named ‘Sage85015’, characterized by its tall, upright and mounded plant habit; freely branching habit; dense and bushy plant habit; dark green-colored leaves; very freely flowering habit with numerous inflorescences per plant; and inflorescences rayless with violet-colored disc florets.

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 plant named ‘Sage85015’, as illustrated and described.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP17417 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.