US Plant Patent PP16500

Balolepurp

Double impatiens plant named ‘Balolepurp’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired February 5, 2025. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on December 13, 2024. This patent earned 54 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP16500, the photograph of Balolepurp printed in the patent. — Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP16500, 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: PP16500
Filed: December 13, 2004
Granted: May 2, 2006
Expires: February 5, 2025
Assignee: BALL HORTICULTURAL CO
Inventor: UCHNEAT MICHAEL S

Abstract

A new and district Double Impatiens plant named ‘Balolepurp’ characterized by its fully double dark purple-colored flowers, medium green-colored foliage, compact, upright and mounded growth habit, and good basal branching character.

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 ‘Balolepurp’, substantially as herein shown and described.

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