US Plant Patent PP16385
Clips Redthree
Geranium plant named ‘Clips Redthree’
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired September 9, 2024. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on April 5, 2024. This patent earned 157 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

The record
- Patent number
- PP16385
- Filed
- April 5, 2004
- Granted
- March 28, 2006
- Expires
- September 9, 2024
- Assignee
- GOLDSMITH SEEDS INC
- Inventor
- HANES MITCHELL
Abstract
A new and distinct cultivar of Geranium plant named ‘Clips Redthree’, characterized by its upright, outwardly spreading and rounded growth habit; freely basal branching habit; dark green-colored leaves; freely flowering habit with many flower umbels per plant; and flower umbels with numerous intense red-colored semi-double flowers.
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1. A new and distinct cultivar of Geranium plant named ‘Clips Redthree’, as herein illustrated and described.
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