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US Plant Patent PP6308

Sunburst

Impatiens plant named Sunburst

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired October 8, 2006. 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
PP6308
Filed
October 8, 1986
Granted
September 27, 1988
Expires
October 8, 2006
Inventor
DREWLOW LYNDON W

Abstract

An Impatiens plant named Sunburst, having deep orange and near white bicolored flowers; large broad green leaves with purple midrib; compact, self-branching, mounded growth habit, and having two flowers per axil and floriferous 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 Impatiens plant named Sunburst, as described and illustrated, and particularly characterized by its deep orange and near white bicolored flowers; large broad green leaves with purple midrib; compact, self-branching, mounded growth habit, and by its two flowers per axil and floriferous habit.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6308 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.