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US Plant Patent PP7273

Gigi

Variety of geranium named Gigi

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired June 1, 2009. 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
PP7273
Filed
June 1, 1989
Granted
July 17, 1990
Expires
June 1, 2009

Abstract

A new geranium having a plant habit which is fuller, resulting in higher cutting production. The plant form is much more compact than the current market varieties which produces the fuller plant. The single salmon-coral florets accent the medium green foliage. This variety has been garden tested and found to be much more heat tolerant and self-cleaning than those ivies currently sold.

Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.

We claim: 1. A new and distinct variety of ivy geranium plant as shown and described herein, and characterized by a full plant habit resulting in higher cutting production, a more compact plant form than the current market varieties, a fuller plant, the single salmon-coral florets accent the medium green foliage and much more heat tolerant and self-cleaning than those ivies currently sold.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP7273 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.