US Plant Patent PP4445
Seneca
Impatiens plant--Seneca
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
- PP4445
- Filed
- July 3, 1978
- Granted
- August 7, 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 SENECA, and discovered by me in commercial greenhouses in Fremont, Calif. SENECA is closest in characteristics to U.S.D.A. ARABESQUE but is particularly characterized by its spreading, yet stiff growth; more open growth habit; its dark variegated foliage; its smaller, yet darker candy-striping on white flowers; and its greater flower numbers.
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 SENECA, and particularly characterized by its dark variegated foliage; its smaller, yet darker candy striping of a white flower; its more open growth habit; its spreading, yet stiff growth; and its floriferousness.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4445 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.