US Plant Patent PP16305

Sabani Blue

Geranium plant named ‘Sabani Blue’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired September 3, 2024. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on March 24, 2024. This patent earned 163 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

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The record

Patent number: PP16305
Filed: March 24, 2004
Granted: March 7, 2006
Expires: September 3, 2024
Assignee: BREMNER ALAN HEDDLE
Inventor: BREMNER ALAN HEDDLE

Abstract

A new cultivar of Geranium plant named ‘Sabani Blue’ which carries upward-facing dark blue flowers early in the season and whose foliage forms a tight dome or mound which does not die down in the summer. In combination these traits set ‘Sabani Blue’ apart from all other existing varieties of Geranium known to the inventor.

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 named ‘Sabani Blue’ as described and illustrated.

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