US Plant Patent PP8521
Showcase Red
Geranium plant `Showcase Red`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired December 23, 2012. 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
- PP8521
- Filed
- December 23, 1992
- Granted
- December 28, 1993
- Expires
- December 23, 2012
- Assignee
- BALL FLORAPLANT
- Inventor
- TREES SCOTT C
Abstract
Geranium Showcase Red is a new and distinct cultivar of geranium, botanically known as Pelargonium×hortorum Bailey. It is distinguished from other geranium plants by good basal branching, compact mounded habit, freely flowering character and particularly by its self-branching without use of growth regulators.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
What is claimed is: 1. A new and distinct geranium cultivar, substantially as herein described and shown, characterized by its compact habit and self-branching without the use of growth regulators.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP8521 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.