US Plant Patent PP8523
Designer Salmon
Geranium plant `Designer Salmon`
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
- PP8523
- Filed
- December 23, 1992
- Granted
- December 28, 1993
- Expires
- December 23, 2012
- Assignee
- BALL FLORAPLANT
- Inventor
- TREES SCOTT C
Abstract
Geranium Designer Series™ Salmon (BFP-165) is a new and distinct cultivar of geranium, botanically known as Pelargonium×hortorum Bailey, and hereinafter referred to by the cultivar name Designer Salmon. Designer Salmon was selected from among progeny of a cross between female parent Schone Helena and male parent Cabaret. The new cultivar is distinguishable from other geraniums and from both parents in its color and its self-branching without growth regulators.
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 semi-double pink-salmon flowers with petaloids and by self-branching in the absence of growth regulators.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP8523 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.