US Plant Patent PP4690
Red Planet
Impatiens plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired December 12, 1999. 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
- PP4690
- Filed
- December 12, 1979
- Granted
- April 14, 1981
- Expires
- December 12, 1999
- Assignee
- MIKKELSENS INC
- Inventor
- VAN DEN BERG CORNELIS P; MIKKELSEN JAMES C
Abstract
An impatiens plant known by the cultivar name Red Planet, and particularly characterized by the combined characteristics of good self-branching; spreading habit; highly variegated foliage; striking velvet-like deep-red flowers; early flowering; suitability for growing both outside in full sunlight and in hanging baskets; and by its good keeping quality both outside in full sunlight and in hanging baskets.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
We claim: 1. A new and distinct cultivar of Impatiens known by the cultivar name Red Planet, as described and illustrated, and particularly characterized by the combined characteristics of good self-branching; spreading habit; highly variegated foliage; striking velvet-like deep-red flowers; early flowering; suitability for growing both outside in full sunlight and in hanging baskets; and by its good keeping quality both outside in full sunlight and in hanging baskets.
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