US Plant Patent PP4410
Impatiens plant -- Osage
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired July 3, 1998. 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
- PP4410
- Filed
- July 3, 1978
- Granted
- April 24, 1979
- Expires
- July 3, 1998
- Inventor
- RYAN JOHN J
No cultivar name of record
This patent does not name the plant, and for its era that is ordinary rather than an omission. Before about 1980, breeders frequently patented a plant without giving it a cultivar name at all — the grant identified it by its number, its parentage and a written description of the flower and foliage. Most plant patents from the 1930s to the 1970s have no name in them.
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
This invention relates to a new and distinct variety of New Guinea Impatiens plant, known by the cultivar name OSAGE, and discovered by me in commercial greenhouses in Fremont, Calif. OSAGE is closest in characteristics to Longwood's CAROUSEL, but is particularly characterized by its much larger flower, larger leaves, longer internodes, and more consistent flowering.
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 OSAGE, and particularly characterized by a large orange flower, large variegated leaves, a stiff upright growth habit, and a more consistent flowering habit than Longwood's CAROUSEL.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4410 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.