US Plant Patent PP4450
Pawnee
Impatiens plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired July 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
- PP4450
- Filed
- July 3, 1978
- Granted
- August 14, 1979
- Expires
- July 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 Pawnee, and discovered by me in commercial greenhouses in Fremont, Calif. Pawnee is closest in characteristics to patented plant Azetc (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 4,193; a dark yet bright red flower with a white eye) except for color. Its best description would be to call it an orange flowering Aztec with distinctive yellow-green leaf variegation. The outstanding characteristics of Pawnee are its many orange flowers, its distinct yellow-green variegation, its spreading growth habit, and its excellent breaking action, making a good basket plant.
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 Pawnee, and particularly characterized by many orange flowers, a distinctive yellow-green variegated foliage, a spreading growth habit, excellent breaking action, and a slightly cupped flower.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4450 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.