US Plant Patent PP16155
Bahlibred
Hibiscus plant ‘Bahlibred’
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired April 29, 2024. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on July 25, 2023. This patent earned 279 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

The record
- Patent number
- PP16155
- Filed
- July 25, 2003
- Granted
- December 13, 2005
- Expires
- April 29, 2024
- Assignee
- PANAMERICAN SEED A DIVISION OF
- Inventor
- LEUE ELLEN
Abstract
A new and distinct cultivar of Hibiscus moscheutos plant named ‘Balhibred’, characterized by its upright and uniform plant habit, large, deep burgundy red-colored flowers, and light green-colored leaves.
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 Hibiscus moscheutos plant named ‘Balhibred’, substantially as herein shown and described.
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