US Plant Patent PP4204
Paul Revere
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
- PP4204
- Filed
- January 31, 1977
- Granted
- January 31, 1978
- Expires
- January 31, 1995
- Assignee
- MIKKELSENS INC
- Inventor
- MIKKELSEN JAMES C
Abstract
A novel impatiens plant having large foliage and medium red to orange red flowers, and which grows well in full sunlight.
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 Paul Revere and particularly characterized as to uniqueness by the combined characteristics of large variegated foliage having dark green outer areas and light green inner areas near the midrib; medium red to orange red flowers up to 6 cm. in diameter; upright medium height plant with good self branching habits and by its growing and flowering in full sunlight outdoors without deterioration of flower or the variegated foliage.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4204 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.