US Plant Patent PP10997
96-009-18
Impatiens plant named `96-009-18`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired April 7, 2017. 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
- PP10997
- Filed
- April 7, 1997
- Granted
- July 6, 1999
- Expires
- April 7, 2017
- Assignee
- JOHN BODGER & SONS CO
- Inventor
- PARKER RONALD D; CLELAND MARYKE
Abstract
A new and distinct cultivar of Impatiens hybrid plant, and named `96-009-18` is provided. `96-009-18` is distinct in its unusual shades of red and orange with red veination, slightly cupped flowers, early flowering, medium green foliage and upright branching growth habit.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
We claim: 1. A new and distinct cultivar of Impatiens plant named `96-009-18`, substantially as described and illustrated herein, characterized particularly as to novelty by its unusual shades of red and orange with red veination, slightly cupped flowers, early flowering, medium green foliage and upright branching growth habit.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP10997 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.