US Plant Patent PP9156
Meriking
Geranium plant named Meriking
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired March 24, 2014. 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
- PP9156
- Filed
- March 24, 1994
- Granted
- June 6, 1995
- Expires
- March 24, 2014
- Assignee
- ENTHOVEN BREEDING B V
- Inventor
- ENTHOVEN ADRIANUS W M
Abstract
A new and distinct cultivar of geranium named Meriking, particularly characterized by the combined features of red flowers that are semi-double, elliptic flower buds, average flowering time and uniform flowering; inflorescence is open with big flowers; red green to dark at top pedicels; compact plant growth habit; dark green and small foliage and leaf margins that are very slightly incised and double crenated.
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 cultivar of geranium plant named Meriking, as illustrated and described.
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