US Plant Patent PP10444
Helena
Variety of Geranium plant named `Helena`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired October 1, 2016. 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
- PP10444
- Filed
- October 1, 1996
- Granted
- June 9, 1998
- Expires
- October 1, 2016
- Assignee
- BODGER JOHN & SONS COMPANY
- Inventor
- LEMON DAVID
Abstract
The cultivar is characterized by the bright pink flower color and a distinctive zone on medium green foliage. Its quick rooting time and continuous flowering provides for superb cuttings and for quick recovery of the bloom following wet weather conditions. The cultivar provides a relatively large floret, and an abundant amount of cuttings may be obtained from a single plant.
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 plant, substantially as shown and described.
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