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US Plant Patent PP4862

Pomo

Impatiens plant named Pomo

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired May 16, 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
PP4862
Filed
May 16, 1980
Granted
June 29, 1982
Expires
May 16, 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 Pomo, a seedling resulting from the cross pollination of unpatented pollen parent 77-281-1 and unpatented pistil parent 77-310-1 and is distinguished by its many pink candy-striped flowers that seem to stay within the foliage canopy and a non-variegated foliage that can be described as chocolate colored, when grown under greenhouse conditions in Fremont, Calif.

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 Impatiens plant as described and illustrated, known by the cultivar name Pomo.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4862 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.