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US Plant Patent PP12172

Pink Spice

Geranium hybrid plant named ‘Pink Spice’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired March 22, 2019. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

No term adjustment or disclaimer is recorded against this patent, so this is the full statutory term — twenty years from the filing date.

The record

Patent number
PP12172
Filed
March 22, 1999
Granted
October 30, 2001
Expires
March 22, 2019
Inventor
DEAN MARK; DEAN ESME JULIEN

Abstract

A new and distinct selection of true Geranium, which shall be referred to hereinafter as cultivar Pink Spice. Cultiver Pink Spice differs distinctively from other Geranium plants by possessing a unique combination of rosette growth habit with purplish green foliage and large deep pink flowers.

Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.

We claim: 1. A new and distinct selection of Geranium plant as substantially shown and described herein, that is characterized particularly as a novelty by the unique combination of rosette growth habit with purplish-green foliage and large deep pink

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP12172 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.