US Plant Patent PP6002
Cirrus
Impatiens plant named Cirrus
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired October 10, 2005. 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
- PP6002
- Filed
- October 10, 1985
- Granted
- September 1, 1987
- Expires
- October 10, 2005
- Assignee
- MIKKELSENS INC
- Inventor
- DREWLOW LYNDON W
Abstract
An Impatiens plant named Nova particularly characterized as to uniqueness by the combined characteristics of relatively early flowering, white flowers with five petals in which the upper petal has a green blotch showing through; vigorous and highly self-branching growth habit; green stems carrying relatively long and broad green leaves having uniform greenish yellow variegation; excellent flower keeping qualities, and ideal suitability for hanging baskets.
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 cultivar of Impatiens named Cirrus, as described and illustrated, and particularly characterized by the combined features of relatively early flowering, white flowers with five petals in which the upper petal has a green blotch showing through; vigorous and highly self-branching growth habit; green stems carrying relatively long and broad green leaves having uniform greenish yellow variegation; excellent flower keeping qualities, and ideal suitability for hanging baskets.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6002 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.