US Plant Patent PP8446
Impatiens plant named Peppermint Red
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired July 27, 2012. 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
- PP8446
- Filed
- July 27, 1992
- Granted
- November 2, 1993
- Expires
- July 27, 2012
- Assignee
- PFISTER BRIAN D
- Inventor
- PFISTER BRIAN D
No cultivar name of record
This patent does not name the plant. Through the 1980s and early 1990s that was still common: naming every new cultivar only became standard practice as plants began to be marketed under brand names. The grant identifies this one by its number and by a written description instead.
Nothing here is missing from our records: the patent itself states no name. Where one exists we show it, and we do not invent one.
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of Impatiens plant named `Peppermint Red` is characterized by the variegated foliage wherein the borders of the leaves are of yellowish-white coloration in contrast to both the darker green and washed dark green patterns of leaves and the single deep red flowers.
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 variety of impatiens plant named `Peppermint Red` as illustrated and described.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP8446 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.