US Plant Patent PP10139
Geranium plant named Sunrise
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired August 21, 2016. 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
- PP10139
- Filed
- August 21, 1996
- Granted
- December 2, 1997
- Expires
- August 21, 2016
- Assignee
- BALL HORTICULTURAL CO
- Inventor
- TREES SCOTT C
No cultivar name of record
This patent does not name the plant, which is unusual for its date — by the mid-1990s nearly every plant patent carried a cultivar name. 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
The new and distinct Pelargonium×hortorum×Pelargonium×peltatum cultivar of the ivy type named `Sunrise` is provided. This new ivy/Zonal Geranium was the result of a controlled breeding program wherein a plant designated 1497-1 (non-patented in the United States) was pollinated by the `Renee` cultivar U.S. Plant Pat. No. 7,353). The new cultivar forms attractive single coral red florets. The medium green foliage with slight zonation is well retained during shipment. The growth habit is medium vigorous and cascading with excellent basal branching in the absence of a growth regulator.
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 variety of Geranium plant named `Sunrise`, substantially as herein shown and described, which: (a) exhibits attractive single coral red florets, (b) forms attractive medium green foliage with slight zonation, and (c) exhibits a medium vigorous and cascading growth habit with excellent basal branching in the absence of a growth regulator.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP10139 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.