US Plant Patent PP4779
Chinook
Impatiens plant named Chinook
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired May 16, 2000. 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
- PP4779
- Filed
- May 16, 1980
- Granted
- October 20, 1981
- Expires
- May 16, 2000
- Inventor
- RYAN JOHN J
Abstract
This invention relates to a new and distinct variety of New Guinea Impatiens plant, known by the cultivar name Chinook, a seedling resulting from the cross pollenation of unpatented pollen parent 76-73-1 and unpatented pistil parent 76-201-1 and is distinguished by its spreading growth habit; many small, slightly cupped, lightly candy-striped red-purple flowers; and very dark, reddish green, metallic looking (black-green with a dull shine) non-variegated foliage.
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 Chinook.
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