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US Plant Patent PP4721

Delaware

Impatiens plant named Delaware

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired April 28, 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
PP4721
Filed
April 28, 1980
Granted
May 19, 1981
Expires
April 28, 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 Delaware, a seedling resulting from the cross pollenation of unpatented pistil parent and patented pollen parent "Mohawk"; and distinguished from Mohawk by its distinctly deeper red-purple color tone, definite yellow-green foliage variegation, lighter green larger foliage, semi-dwarf plant size, and up-right, only slightly spreading growth habit.

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 Delaware.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4721 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.