US Plant Patent PP10422
Cotton Candy
Variety of Geranium plant named named `Cotton Candy`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired December 12, 2015. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on March 20, 2017, but this patent ends 464 days earlier — a terminal disclaimer gives term back. A source that calculates twenty years from filing would tell you this plant is still protected when it is already free.
The record
- Patent number
- PP10422
- Filed
- March 20, 1997
- Granted
- May 26, 1998
- Expires
- December 12, 2015
- Assignee
- BODGER JOHN & SONS COMPANY
- Inventor
- LEMON DAVID
Abstract
The cultivar is characterized by its very dark foliage and medium salmon color flower. Its strong growth habit and free flowering provides for superb cuttings and also for quick recovery following wet weather conditions. The blooms are heat tolerant.
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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