US Plant Patent PP4202
Lafayette
Impatiens plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired January 31, 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 731 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
- PP4202
- Filed
- January 31, 1977
- Granted
- January 31, 1978
- Expires
- January 31, 1995
- Assignee
- MIKKELSENS INC
- Inventor
- MIKKELSEN JAMES C
Abstract
A novel impatiens variety having deep orange-red blossoms borne profusely on a semi-compact plant.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: a 1. A new and distinct cultivar of Impatiens known by the cultivar name Lafayette and particularly characterized as to uniqueness by the combined characteristics of semi-compact growth habit that breaks well after the removal of the apical tip; internode spacing which provides excellent exposure to foliage and flowers; sharp, narrow leaf variegation, with the variegation developing quickly; deep orange-red flower color and profuse flowering; a spur which is curved and the same color as the flower petals, and its five flower petals, the top one of which is separated from the other four with its apex nearly pointed, and the bottom two of which are largest in diameter and have their apices recessed at the vein.
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