US Plant Patent PP4720
Penobscot
Impatiens plant named Penobscot
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
- PP4720
- 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 Penobscot, a seedling resulting from the cross pollenation of unpatented pollen parent 77-273-1 and patented pistil parent "Mohawk" (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 4,427) and is distinguished by its medium-sized lavender flower, dark green, non-variegated foliage and pronounced 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 impatients plant as described and illustrated, known by the cultivar name Penobscot.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4720 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.