US Plant Patent PP15651
Free Arcred
Geranium plant named ‘Free Arcred’
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired December 14, 2023. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on August 14, 2023. This patent earned 122 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

The record
- Patent number
- PP15651
- Filed
- August 14, 2003
- Granted
- March 15, 2005
- Expires
- December 14, 2023
- Assignee
- GOLDSMITH SEEDS INC
- Inventor
- HANES MITCHELL EUGENE; OLBRING ANDREAS
Abstract
A Geranium cultivar particularly distinguished by medium green foliage with light zonation, semi-double, dark red flowers with a white bi-color patterning on large umbels, fast rooting and vigorous growth.
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 as shown and described herein.
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