US Plant Patent PP8908
Baroness
Variety of geranium named "Baroness"
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired January 14, 2014. 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
- PP8908
- Filed
- January 14, 1994
- Granted
- September 20, 1994
- Expires
- January 14, 2014
- Assignee
- OGLEVEE LTD
- Inventor
- WALTERS ERNEST
Abstract
`Baroness` has a wine red flower with a deep maroon blotch that appears almost black above a medium green foliage. It has smaller florets, but many more than the other Regal geranium currently on the market. Cutting production and rooting time are much better and lasting quality is improved also. Post harvest time is longer than the current varieties as well.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
It is claimed: 1. A new and distinct variety of geranium plant substantially as shown and described.
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