US Plant Patent PP7351
Geranium plant #821-(82-116-13)
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired May 3, 2009. 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
- PP7351
- Filed
- May 3, 1989
- Granted
- October 9, 1990
- Expires
- May 3, 2009
No cultivar name of record
This patent does not name the plant. Through the 1980s and early 1990s that was still common: naming every new cultivar only became standard practice as plants began to be marketed under brand names. The grant identifies this one by its number and by a written description instead.
Nothing here is missing from our records: the patent itself states no name. Where one exists we show it, and we do not invent one.
Abstract
This invention relates to a new and distinct cultivar of Geranium (Pelargonium×hortorum) named #821-(82-116-13) substantially as described herein, characterized as being particularly well adapted to both commercial greenhouse production and garden performance, and as being early flowering and floriferous, self-branching and compact, heat-tolerant and low-light-tolerant.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
What is claimed is: 1. A new and distinct cultivar of Geranium substantially as herein shown and described, characterized as being particularly well adapted to both commercial greenhouse production as well as garden performance, and as being early flowering, floriferous, self-branching, compact, heat-tolerant and low-light-tolerant.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP7351 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.