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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
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.