US Plant Patent PP4261
Creek
Impatiens plant -- Creek
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired June 6, 1995. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on March 28, 1997, but this patent ends 661 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
- PP4261
- Filed
- March 28, 1977
- Granted
- June 6, 1978
- Expires
- June 6, 1995
- Inventor
- RYAN JOHN J
Abstract
The present invention comprises a new and distinct variety of New Guinea Impatiens plant having the cultivar name Creek, discovered by me in a commercial greenhouse in Fremont, Calif. Creek has a growth habit that is typical of a New Guinea pot variety and is similar to USDA Arabesque, and a foliage color similar to Mikkel Red Magic but is particularly characterized by bright red-green foliage that grows in richness under high light; a bright pink flower color with slightly darker eye; verses Red Magic which is dark red-rose and Arabesque which is candy-striped; a moderate flower size and average number of flowers; and the chief distinction of having good flower to foliar color contrast.
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 form of Impatiens plants as described and illustrated, known by the cultivar name Creek and particularly characterized by its bright red-green foliage that grows in richness under high light; bright pink flower color with slightly darker eye; moderate flower size and average number of flowers; average growth habit for a New Guinea pot variety; but the chief distinction is the good flower to foliar contrast.
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