US Plant Patent PP16706

Pacwhite

Geranium plant named ‘Pacwhite’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired April 25, 2025. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on March 5, 2025. This patent earned 51 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

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The record

Patent number: PP16706
Filed: March 5, 2005
Granted: June 20, 2006
Expires: April 25, 2025
Assignee: ELSNER JUNGPFLANZEN
Inventor: MICHALIK ANDREA

Abstract

A new and distinct cultivar of Ivy Geranium plant named ‘Pacwhite’, characterized by its upright, outward spreading and trailing plant habit; vigorous growth habit; freely basal branching habit; large, single and white-colored flowers; and good garden performance.

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 Ivy Geranium plant named ‘Pacwhite’, as herein illustrated and described.

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