US Plant Patent PP5125
Milkyway
Impatiens plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired March 2, 2002. 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
- PP5125
- Filed
- March 2, 1982
- Granted
- October 25, 1983
- Expires
- March 2, 2002
- Assignee
- MIKKELSENS INC
- Inventor
- MIKKELSEN JAMES C
Abstract
An impatiens plant known by the cultivar name Milkyway and characterized by its white flowers; variegated foliage; superior self-branching habit; tightly compact and symmetrically mounded growth habit; high floriferousness, and by its relative deterioration under low temperatures.
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 plant known by the cultivar name Milkyway, as described and illustrated, and particularly characterized as to uniqueness by its white flowers, variegated foliage, superior self-branching habit, tightly compact and symmetrically mounded growth habit, high floriferousness, and by its relative deterioration under low temperatures.
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