US Plant Patent PP8368
Melanie
Impatiens plant named Melanie
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired December 6, 2011. 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
- PP8368
- Filed
- December 6, 1991
- Granted
- September 7, 1993
- Expires
- December 6, 2011
Abstract
An Impatiens plant named Melanie, characterized by its light, almost bluish pink flower color with red-purple center eye, compact growth habit, solid dark green foliage, very early flowering, and its floriferous 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 Impatiens plant named Melanie, as illustrated and described.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP8368 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.