US Plant Patent PP16302

Balcebimpu

New Guinea Impatiens plant named ‘Balcebimpu’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired January 29, 2025. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on December 13, 2024. This patent earned 47 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP16302, the photograph of Balcebimpu printed in the patent. — Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP16302, reproduced as printed. Photographs in a plant patent are taken by the applicant. Reproduction of the patent document is permitted; the image is shown whole and uncropped for that reason.

The record

Patent number: PP16302
Filed: December 13, 2004
Granted: February 28, 2006
Expires: January 29, 2025
Assignee: BALL HORTICULTURAL CO
Inventor: STROPE KERRY M

Abstract

A new and distinct New Guinea Impatiens plant named ‘Balcebimpu’ characterized by its large, single purple-colored flowers, dark green-colored glossy foliage, good basal branching, and upright and mounded growth habit.

Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.

1. A new and distinct cultivar of New Guinea Impatiens plant named ‘Balcebimpu’, substantially as herein shown and described.

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