US Plant Patent PP4259
Navajo
Impatiens plant -- Navajo
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired June 6, 1995. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on March 28, 1997, but this patent ends 661 days earlier — a terminal disclaimer gives term back. A source that calculates twenty years from filing would tell you this plant is still protected when it is already free.
The record
- Patent number
- PP4259
- Filed
- March 28, 1977
- Granted
- June 6, 1978
- Expires
- June 6, 1995
- Inventor
- RYAN JOHN J
Abstract
This invention relates to a new and distinct variety of New Guinea Impatiens plant known by the cultivar name Navajo, and discovered by me in commercial greenhouses in Fremont, Calif. Navajo is closest in characteristics to USDA Arabesque but is particularly characterized by rich red-green follage with a very distinct golden brown to off-yellow variegation; a medium size, rose-red flower with a light eye; a very erect, thick, stiff stem; and very good breaking action, making an excellent pot and/or bedding plant.
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 Navajo and particularly characterized by rich red-green foliage with a very distinct golden brown to off-yellow variegation; a medium size, rose-red flower with a light eye; a very erect, thick, stiff stem; and very good breaking action, making an excellent pot and/or bedding plant.
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