US Plant Patent PP4190
Betsy Ross
Impatiens plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired January 17, 1995. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on January 31, 1997, but this patent ends 745 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
- PP4190
- Filed
- January 31, 1977
- Granted
- January 17, 1978
- Expires
- January 17, 1995
- Assignee
- MIKKELSENS INC
- Inventor
- MIKKELSEN JAMES C
Abstract
A novel Impatiens variety having variegated foliage, light pink flowers, and a compact plant 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 cultivar of Impatiens known by the cultivar name Betsy Ross and particularly characterized as to novelty by the combined characteristics of compact growth habit with close internodes; thick and large foliage which is variegated, having central portions which varies from light yellow to cream depending on light conditions; light pink flowers and by its long lasting characteristic.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4190 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.