US Plant Patent PP4258
Maya
Impatiens plant Maya
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
- PP4258
- Filed
- March 28, 1977
- Granted
- June 6, 1978
- Expires
- June 6, 1995
- Inventor
- RYAN JOHN J
Abstract
This invention relates to a new and distinct variety of New Guinea Impatiens plant known by the cultivar name Maya, and discovered by me in commercial greenhouses in Fremont, Calif. Maya is closest in characteristics to Mikkel Red Magic particularly characterized by its excellent floriferousness; good breaking action making a full basket and giving good cutting production; red-green foliage like Mikkel Red Magic; fast growth habit; a light red-orange flower; and the ability to withstand adverse conditions.
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 plant as described and illustrated known by the cultivar name Maya and particularly characterized by its excellent floriferousness; good breaking action; making a full basket; giving good cutting production; red-green foliage like Mikkel Red Magic: fast growth habit; a light red-orange flower; and the ability to withstand adverse conditions.
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