US Plant Patent PP4371
Chippewa
Impatiens plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired February 3, 1998. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
No term adjustment or disclaimer is recorded against this patent, so this is the full statutory term — twenty years from the filing date.
The record
- Patent number
- PP4371
- Filed
- February 3, 1978
- Granted
- January 23, 1979
- Expires
- February 3, 1998
- Inventor
- RYAN JOHN J
Abstract
This invention relates to a new and distinct variety of New Guinea Impatiens plant known by the cultivar name Chippewa, and discovered by me in commercial greenhouses in Fremont, Calif. Chippewa is closest in characteristics to Creek, but has a more upright growth habit; much more floriferous than Creek; both flowers and foliage are lighter than Creek; Chippewa is variegated, depending on light intensity and age of plant; and the candy striping shows on the light pink flowers.
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 form of Impatiens plant as described and illustrated, known by the cultivar name Chippewa, that has variegation depending on light intensity and age of cutting; a candy striped light pink flower; many flowers; a very upright growth habit; and a slight foliar reddening.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4371 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.