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US Plant Patent PP11426

Deep Purple

Impatiens plant named `Deep Purple`

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired June 1, 2018. 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
PP11426
Filed
June 1, 1998
Granted
June 20, 2000
Expires
June 1, 2018
Inventor
COSNER HARLAN BRIAN; COSNER SUE LYNN

Abstract

A new and distinct cultivar of Impatiens plant named `Deep Purple`, characterized by it's large, deep purple flowers which are held above or beyond the foliage; consistently double and symmetrical flower form; numerous flowers per plant; freely and continuously flowering; freely branching, dense growth habit; upright mounded plant habit, globular to triangular in shape; and dark green foliage with reddish blotches on the underside.

Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.

It is claimed: 1. A new and distinct cultivar of double flowered Impatiens plant as herein illustrated and described.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP11426 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.