US Plant Patent PP8552
Designer Light Pink
Geranium plant `Designer Light Pink`
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
- PP8552
- Filed
- December 23, 1992
- Granted
- January 18, 1994
- Expires
- December 23, 2012
- Assignee
- BALL HORTICULTURAL CO
- Inventor
- TREES SCOTT C
Abstract
Geranium Designer Series™ Light Pink (BFP-174) is a new and distinct cultivar of Geranium, botanically known as Pelargonium×hortorum Bailey, and hereinafter referred to by the cultivar name Designer Light Pink. Designer Light Pink was selected from among the progeny of a cross between female parent Romance and PAS-W. The new cultivar is distinguishable from other geraniums and from both parents in not requiring a growth regulator for self-branching.
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 pink-lavender color, mounded habit and non-shattering flower petals.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP8552 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.