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US Plant Patent PP17847

Bright Yogretchen

Chrysanthemum plant named ‘Bright Yogretchen’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired December 5, 2025. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on November 8, 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 PP17847, the photograph of Bright Yogretchen printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP17847, 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
PP17847
Filed
November 8, 2005
Granted
July 3, 2007
Expires
December 5, 2025
Assignee
YODER BROTHERS INC
Inventor
SMITH MARK A

Abstract

A new and distinct cultivar of Chrysanthemum plant named ‘Bright Yogretchen’, characterized by its compact, upright and mounded plant habit; freely branching habit; dense and full plants; uniform and freely flowering habit; medium-sized decorative-type inflorescences with elongated oblong-shaped ray florets; golden yellow-colored ray florets; and natural season flowering in mid-September in the Northern Hemisphere.

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 Chrysanthemum plant named ‘Bright Yogretchen’, as illustrated and described.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP17847 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.