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US Plant Patent PP16370

Balcelipurt

New Guinea Impatiens plant named ‘Balcelipurt’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired June 11, 2024. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on December 19, 2023. This patent earned 175 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP16370, the photograph of Balcelipurt printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP16370, 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
PP16370
Filed
December 19, 2003
Granted
March 21, 2006
Expires
June 11, 2024
Assignee
STROPE KERRY
Inventor
STROPE KERRY

Abstract

A new and distinct cultivar of New Guinea Impatiens plant named ‘Balcelipurt’ characterized by its large light purple-colored flowers with darker purple-colored mid-rib, medium green-colored foliage, uniform medium upright, mounded growth habit, and good 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 ‘Balcelipurt’ substantially, as herein shown and described, which: 1. Exhibits large round light purple-colored flowers with darker purple-colored mid-rib, 2. Forms medium green-colored foliage, 3. Exhibits a good basal branching character.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP16370 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.