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.