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US Plant Patent PP15805

Balcelichey

New Guinea Impatiens plant named ‘Balcelichey’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired May 9, 2024. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on December 16, 2023. This patent earned 145 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP15805, the photograph of Balcelichey printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP15805, 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
PP15805
Filed
December 16, 2003
Granted
June 21, 2005
Expires
May 9, 2024
Assignee
BALL HORTICULTURAL CO
Inventor
STROPE KERRY

Abstract

A new and distinct cultivar of New Guinea Impatiens plant named ‘Balcelichey’ characterized by its large bright red-colored flowers, dark green-colored foliage, uniform medium upright, mounded growth habit, and excellent basal branching.

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 ‘Balcelichey’ substantially, as herein shown and described, which: 1. Exhibits large round red-colored flowers, 2. Forms dark green-colored foliage, 3. Exhibits a good basal branching character, and 4. Exhibits a medium upright, mounded growth habit.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP15805 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.