US Plant Patent PP16580

Balshorofla

Geranium plant named ‘Balshorofla’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired May 4, 2025. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on December 27, 2024. This patent earned 128 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP16580, the photograph of Balshorofla printed in the patent. — Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP16580, reproduced as printed. Photographs in a plant patent are taken by the applicant. Reproduction of the patent document is permitted; the image is shown whole and uncropped for that reason.

The record

Patent number: PP16580
Filed: December 27, 2004
Granted: May 30, 2006
Expires: May 4, 2025
Assignee: BALL HORTICULTURAL CO
Inventor: TREES SCOTT C

Abstract

A new and distinct cultivar of Geranium plant named ‘Balshorofla’, characterized by its semi-double pink-colored flowers with darker pink freckle, dark green-colored foliage, and vigorous, upright, and mounded growth habit.

Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.

1. A new and distinct cultivar of Geranium plant named ‘Balshorofla’, substantially as herein shown and described.

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