US Plant Patent PP7149
Geranium plant named Marpanet
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired September 12, 2008. 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
- PP7149
- Filed
- September 12, 1988
- Granted
- February 13, 1990
- Expires
- September 12, 2008
No cultivar name of record
This patent does not name the plant. Through the 1980s and early 1990s that was still common: naming every new cultivar only became standard practice as plants began to be marketed under brand names. 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 distinctive geranium plant characterized by its relatively large, well filled, ball-formed flower clusters on 14 cm. stalks and containing about seventy florets having the red purple color of the well known `Kardinal`. Each floret has about six petals of uniform coloration and is well filled with a diameter of about 5 cm. providing clusters that stand predominantly above the dark green foliage which has good zonation. The plant is a bushy and compact variety with heavy branches of medium height with a vigorous and spreading growth habit and abundant foliage, with many leaves of medium size, which stands about 18 cm. above the soil.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. The new and distinct geranium variety, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized by its relatively large flower clusters containing many closely grouped florets which, when mature, have a solid red-purple coloration, the plant being of bushy form, medium height, and with abundant foliage.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP7149 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.