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US Plant Patent PP15592

Balfiesink

Double Impatiens plant named ‘Balfiesink’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired December 16, 2023. 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.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP15592, the photograph of Balfiesink printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP15592, reproduced as printed. Photographs in a plant patent are taken by the applicant. Reproduction of the patent document is permitted; the image is shown whole and uncropped for that reason.

The record

Patent number
PP15592
Filed
December 16, 2003
Granted
February 22, 2005
Expires
December 16, 2023
Assignee
BALL HORTICULTURAL CO
Inventor
UCHNEAT MICHAEL

Abstract

A new and distinct Double Impatiens plant named ‘Balfiesink’ characterized by its fully double dark pink/pale pink bicolor flowers, dark green-colored foliage, compact, upright and mounded growth habit and excellent basal branching.

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

1. A new and distinct cultivar of Double Impatiens plant named ‘Balfiesink’ substantially, as herein shown and described, which: 1. Exhibits fully double dark pink/pale pink bicolor flowers, 2. Forms dark green-colored foliage, 3. Exhibits a good basal branching character, and 4. Exhibits a compact, upright and mounded growth habit.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP15592 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.