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US Plant Patent PP13468

Balceblicol

New Guinea Impatiens Plant Named ‘Balceblicol’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired January 31, 2021. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on January 30, 2021. This patent earned 1 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP13468, the photograph of Balceblicol printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP13468, 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
PP13468
Filed
January 30, 2001
Granted
January 14, 2003
Expires
January 31, 2021
Assignee
BALL HORTICULTURAL CO
Inventor
STROPE KERRY M

Abstract

A new and distinct New Guinea impatiens cultivar named Balceblico, characterized by its large light coral flowers, striking bronze foliage with yellow/orange variegation, compact, upright and mounded habit and excellent basal branching.

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 New Guinea Impatiens plant named ‘Balcelblico’ substantially as herein shown and described, which: (a) Exhibits large round light coral flowers. (b) Forms bronze foliage with yellow/orange variegation, (c) Exhibits a good basal branching character, and

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