US Plant Patent PP8669
Designer Scarlet
Geranium plant `Designer Scarlet`
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
- PP8669
- Filed
- December 23, 1992
- Granted
- March 29, 1994
- Expires
- December 23, 2012
- Assignee
- BALL HORTICULTURAL CO
- Inventor
- TREES SCOTT C
Abstract
Geranium Designer Series ™ Scarlet (BFP-27) is a new and distinct cultivar of geranium, botanically known as Pelargonium×hortorum Bailey, and hereinafter referred to by the cultivar name Designer Scarlet. Designer Scarlet was selected from a hybridization between female parent 7GRT-124B and male parent Tango. The new cultivar is distinguished from other geraniums and both parents by its orange scarlet color and its good basal branching in the absence of a growth regulator.
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 orange-scarlet color, strong peduncle and basal branching in the absence of growth regulators.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP8669 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.