US Plant Patent PP8220
Orange Delite
Double flowering variegated impatiens "Orange Delite"
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired November 15, 2011. 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
- PP8220
- Filed
- November 15, 1991
- Granted
- May 4, 1993
- Expires
- November 15, 2011
Abstract
An impatiens plant which is a derivative of the variety known as "Duet" found as a sport in a planting of the variety "Dapper Dan" (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 7,130) where the double deep red flowers are contrasted with foliage which is the usual green of the impatiens leaves, having a variegated border in which the leaf variegation pattern is not uniform in at least two mesophyll layers of leaf tissue rendering the appearance as being layered, the color being of yellowish white and as a border of varying widths. The leaves appear to be substantially the same shape as the variety "Dapper Dan". The overall color of the flowers is noticeable as being substantially more orange than that variety, when the flowers are compared with those of U.S. Plant Pat. No. 7,130.
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 impatiens plant, substantially as shown and described, characterized particularly as to novelty by the orange color of the flowers with the foliage having borders of leaves of yellowish white coloration which provide for variegation, the borders being of relatively varying widths from leaf to leaf, the primary distinction residing in the orange coloration as heretofore set forth in contrast to the much more red impatiens "Duet".
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP8220 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.