US Plant Patent PP9006
Alan Bloom
Geranium sanguineum `Alan Bloom`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired November 4, 2013. 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
- PP9006
- Filed
- November 4, 1993
- Granted
- December 6, 1994
- Expires
- November 4, 2013
- Assignee
- BLOOMS OF BRESSINGHAM LTD
- Inventor
- BLOOM ALAN H V
Abstract
A new variety of Geranium which bears prolific pink flowers beginning in June and continues to flower into September. The plant has semi-evergreen foliage and is winter hardy. It has a low growing spreading habit and is ideal for use in borders and containers.
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, substantially as shown and described and characterized by prolific flowering, having clusters of pink blossoms on racemes arising from the plant base, excellent vigor and hardiness being semi-evergreen, and a flowering season from June into September, longer than normal for the species.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP9006 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.