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US Plant Patent PP7844

Epia

New Guinea Impatiens plant named Epia

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired September 5, 2010. 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
PP7844
Filed
September 5, 1990
Granted
March 31, 1992
Expires
September 5, 2010

Abstract

An Impatiens plant named Epia having large, brilliant orange-red flowers, green leaves with yellow variegation appearing on older leaves near basal end of mid-vein, early and floriferous flowering, long-lasting flowers, and compact growth habit with excellent self-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 Impatiens plant named Epia, as illustrated and described.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP7844 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.