US Plant Patent PP4191
Patriot
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
- PP4191
- Filed
- January 31, 1977
- Granted
- January 17, 1978
- Expires
- January 17, 1995
- Assignee
- MIKKELSENS INC
- Inventor
- MIKKELSEN JAMES C
Abstract
A novel Impatiens plant having white blossoms and large, variegated leaves.
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 plant known by the cultivar name Patriot and particularly characterized as to uniqueness by the combined characteristics of distinct white flower color at maturity, with the flower being close to the foliage; large variegated foliage with close internodes, and slow growth and compact habit.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4191 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.