US Plant Patent PP8522
Designer Coral
Geranium plant `Designer Coral`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired December 23, 2012. 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
- PP8522
- Filed
- December 23, 1992
- Granted
- December 28, 1993
- Expires
- December 23, 2012
- Assignee
- BALL FLORAPLANT
- Inventor
- TREES SCOTT C
Abstract
Geranium Designer Series™ Coral (BFP-360) is a new and distinct cultivar of geranium, botanically known as Pelargonium×hortorum Bailey. BFP-360 was selected from among the progeny of a cross between female parent 538-1 and male parent Plaisire. The new cultivar is distinguishable from other geraniums and both parents in color and in not requiring a growth regulator to obtain basal branching, compact plants.
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 geranium cultivar, substantially as herein described and shown, characterized by its solid coral color, clean straight peduncles and basal branching in the absence of growth regulators.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP8522 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.