US Plant Patent PP5134
Twinkles
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
- PP5134
- Filed
- March 2, 1982
- Granted
- November 8, 1983
- Expires
- March 2, 2002
- Assignee
- MIKKELSENS INC
- Inventor
- MIKKELSEN JAMES C
Abstract
An impatiens plant known by the cultivar name Gemini, and characterized by its clear bright pink flower color and contrasting dark green variegated foliage; highly floriferous habit; firm petal texture; relatively large flowers, with distinct deep pink to red throat; continuous flowering and highly stable flower color, with little fading in summer, and by its semi-procumbent and weather resistant habits which make it ideal for baskets and bedding plants.
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 known by the cultivar name Twinkles, as described and illustrated, and particularly characterized by its sharp clear pink flower color in cool regimes and generally salmon pink flower color in mid-summer; variegated foliage; excellent self-branching and procumbent growth habits; high floriferousness, and quick flowering; fast growing and free breaking, providing full and large plant, and by its relatively small flowers.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5134 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.