US Plant Patent PP4192
Monticello
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
- PP4192
- 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 sharply variegated foliage.
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 Monticello and particularly characterized as to uniqueness by the combined characteristic of distinct variegated pattern of foliage; excellent and fast growth; good branching habit and white flowers in which the top petal tends to be spaced or isolated from the remaining four petals, and its tolerance to outdoor environments.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4192 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.