US Plant Patent PP4205
Liberty
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
- PP4205
- 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 a strong, rigid, arching growth habit and an attractive contrast between the variegated foliage and large pink blossoms.
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 Liberty and particularly as to uniqueness by the combined characteristics of a very floriferous appearance due to the terminal whorl of leaves developing close to the previous node and branching frequently at several nodes on the same stem; the top and bottom petals having a nearly white throat at the base; relatively wide and variegated leaves; generally pink flower color and above average flower size; strong, rigid growth which develops an arching, flowering pattern; ease of propagation in quantity, and preferred growth in a very lightly shaded environment.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4205 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.