US Plant Patent PP4448
Shoshoni
Impatiens plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired February 6, 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
- PP4448
- Filed
- February 6, 1978
- Granted
- August 14, 1979
- Expires
- February 6, 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 Shoshoni, and discovered by me in commercial greenhouses in Fremont, Calif. Shoshoni is closest in characteristics to Red Magic, but is particularly characterized by its orange flowers; color breaks to a very light orange; a less succulent growth; and very floriferous as is Red Magic with a similar dark 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 form of Impatiens plant, as described and illustrated, known by the cultivar name Shoshoni, and particularly characterized by its orange flower; color breaks to a very light orange; a less succulent growth than Red Magic; and very floriferous as is Red Magic with a similar dark foliage.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4448 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.