US Plant Patent PP6297
Equinox
Impatiens plant named Equinox
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired October 8, 2006. 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
- PP6297
- Filed
- October 8, 1986
- Granted
- September 20, 1988
- Expires
- October 8, 2006
- Assignee
- MIKKELSENS INC
- Inventor
- DREWLOW LYNDON W
Abstract
An impatiens plant named Equinox, having light pink flowers, with magenta eyes; dark purplish green foliage; self-branching and floriferous habit, and having the ability to tolerate both high and low temperatures.
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 plant named Equinox, as described and illustrated, and particularly characterized by its light pink flowers, with magenta eyes; dark purplish green foliage; self-branching and floriferous habit, and by its ability to tolerate both high and low temperatures.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6297 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.