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US Plant Patent PP17382

Fisco Fire

New Guinea Impatiens plant named ‘Fisco Fire’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired September 30, 2025. 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.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP17382, the photograph of Fisco Fire printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP17382, 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
PP17382
Filed
September 30, 2005
Granted
January 23, 2007
Expires
September 30, 2025
Assignee
HOFMANN BIRGIT CHRISTA
Inventor
HOFMANN BIRGIT CHRISTA

Abstract

A new and distinct cultivar of New Guinea Impatiens plant named ‘Fisco Fire’, characterized by its relatively compact, outwardly spreading and uniformly mounded plant habit; rounded growth habit; freely branching and freely flowering habit; dark green-colored foliage; large bright red-colored flowers; and flowers that are positioned above or beyond the foliage.

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 ‘Fisco Fire’, as illustrated and described.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP17382 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.