US Plant Patent PP5920
Comet
Impatiens plant named Comet
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired October 19, 2004. 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
- PP5920
- Filed
- October 19, 1984
- Granted
- March 31, 1987
- Expires
- October 19, 2004
- Assignee
- MIKKELSENS INC
- Inventor
- MIKKELSEN JAMES C
Abstract
An impatiens plant named Comet, having large deep pink to red purple flower color, large number of leaves in a whorl, multiple flowering at a leaf axil, good keeping quality of flowers, extremely floriferous, long internodes on a compact plant, terminal shoot that is slow to elongate, irregular lateral branching from the leaf whorl, and by its adaptability to various environments of use.
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 New Guinea Impatiens plant named Comet, as described and illustrated, and particularly characterized by its large deep pink to red purple flower color, large number of leaves in a whorl, multiple flowering at a leaf axil, good keeping quality of flowers, extremely floriferous, long internodes on a compact plant, terminal shoot that is slow to elongate, irregular lateral branching from the leaf whorl, and by its adaptability to various environments of use.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5920 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.