US Plant Patent PP17779

Elegance Lavender

Geranium plant named ‘Elegance Lavender’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired November 12, 2025. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on August 23, 2025. This patent earned 81 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP17779, the photograph of Elegance Lavender printed in the patent. — Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP17779, 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: PP17779
Filed: August 23, 2005
Granted: June 5, 2007
Expires: November 12, 2025
Assignee: OGLEVEE LTD
Inventor: LEMON DAVID G

Abstract

A new and distinct cultivar of Regal Geranium plant named ‘Elegance Lavender’, characterized by its early flowering; free-flowering habit; bright lavender-colored flowers with a purple eye and a mounded, bushy plant habit.

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 Geranium plant named ‘Elegance Lavender’ as herein described and illustrated.

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