US Plant Patent PP5153
Cosmos
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
- PP5153
- Filed
- March 2, 1982
- Granted
- December 6, 1983
- Expires
- March 2, 2002
- Assignee
- MIKKELSENS INC
- Inventor
- MIKKELSEN JAMES C
Abstract
An impatiens plant known by the cultivar name Cosmos and characterized by its intense mauve flower color; long, narrow variegated foliage; self-branching, thin stems and procumbent growth, making the cultivar ideal for hanging baskets; early and continuous flowering, with flower intensity and variegation being most pronounced in high light conditions.
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 Cosmos, as described and illustrated, and particularly characterized by its intense mauve flower color; long, narrow variegated foliage; self-branching, thin stems and procumbent growth, making the cultivar ideal for hanging baskets; early and continous flowering, with flower intensity and variegation being most pronounced in high light conditions.
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