US Plant Patent PP17462

SIL RUBEN

Geranium plant named ‘SIL RUBEN’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired May 20, 2025. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on December 20, 2024. This patent earned 151 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

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The record

Patent number: PP17462
Filed: December 20, 2004
Granted: March 6, 2007
Expires: May 20, 2025
Assignee: SILZE GMBH & COMPANY KG
Inventor: FISCHER-TOEHL ILSE

Abstract

A new and distinct cultivar of Geranium plant named ‘SIL RUBEN’ characterized by its large, semi-double dark red-colored flowers, medium green-colored foliage, freely branching character, and vigorous, mounded, and trailing growth habit.

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 ‘SIL RUBEN’, substantially as herein shown and described.

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