US Plant Patent PP6004
Nova
Impatiens plant named Nova
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired October 10, 2005. 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
- PP6004
- Filed
- October 10, 1985
- Granted
- September 1, 1987
- Expires
- October 10, 2005
- Assignee
- MIKKELSENS INC
- Inventor
- DREWLOW LYNDON W
Abstract
An Impatiens plant named Nova particularly characterized as to uniqueness by the combined characteristics of bright orange red flower color; relatively large flowers, two of which occur at each leaf axil; vigorous and superior self-branching habits; leaf variegation pattern and color, and relatively early flowering.
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 named Nova, as described and illustrated, and particularly characterized by the combined features of bright orange red flower color; relatively large flowers, two of which occur at each leaf axil; vigorous and superior self-branching habits; leaf variegation pattern and color, and relatively early flowering.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6004 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.