US Plant Patent PP17335

Margarita

Carnation plant named ‘Margarita’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired May 23, 2025. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on March 5, 2025. This patent earned 79 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

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The record

Patent number: PP17335
Filed: March 5, 2005
Granted: January 2, 2007
Expires: May 23, 2025
Assignee: KOOIJ & ZONEN B V P
Inventor: HEIL JOHAN EDWIN

Abstract

A new and distinct cultivar of Carnation plant named ‘Margarita’, characterized by its compact, upright and rounded plant habit; freely basal branching habit; freely flowering habit; and red purple and white bi-colored flowers.

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 Carnation plant named ‘Margarita’, as illustrated and described.

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