Geranium plant named Hope

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired February 10, 2025. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on September 27, 2024. This patent earned 136 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP17265, the photograph of Geranium plant named Hope printed in the patent.

Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP17265, 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

PP17265

Filed

September 27, 2004

Granted

December 12, 2006

Expires

February 10, 2025

Assignee

J P BARTLETT CO INC

Inventor

ABRAMS LAURA B

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

This invention is a new and distinct cultivar of a zonal geranium ( Pelargonium×hortorum ) named ‘Hope’ the cultivar has a large dark purple blossom and darker green foliage with a medium dark zone on a stable, full, well branched plant.

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

1. A new and distinct variety of geranium plant herein illustrated and described.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP17265 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.