US Plant Patent PP9596
Geranium plant named BFP-790 Pink Parfait
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired April 14, 2015. 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
- PP9596
- Filed
- April 14, 1995
- Granted
- June 25, 1996
- Expires
- April 14, 2015
- Assignee
- GEO J BALL INC
- Inventor
- TREES SCOTT C
No cultivar name of record
This patent does not name the plant, which is unusual for its date — by the mid-1990s nearly every plant patent carried a cultivar name. The grant identifies this one by its number and by a written description instead.
Nothing here is missing from our records: the patent itself states no name. Where one exists we show it, and we do not invent one.
Abstract
A new and distinct Pelargonium×hortorum cultivar named `BFP-790 Pink Parfait` is provided. This new Zonal Geranium cultivar was the result of a controlled breeding program wherein a plant designated 1797-1 (non-patented in the United States) was pollinated by the plant designated 2006-2 (non-patented in the United States). The new cultivar forms attractive semi-double tricolored florets with medium pink petals having a distinct large rose pink freckle and a white eye on each petal. Attractive dark green foliage is well retained during shipment. The growth habit is medium self-branching and does not require the use of a growth regulator.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. A new and distinct Geranium plant named `BFP-790 Pink Parfait`, substantially as herein shown and described, which: (a) exhibits attractive semi-double tricolored florets with medium pink petals having a large rose pink freckle and a white eye on each petal, (b) forms attractive dark green foliage, and (c) exhibits a medium self-branching growth habit in the absence of a growth regulator.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP9596 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.