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US Plant Patent PP13702

Fisimp 551

New Guinea Impatiens plant named ‘Fisimp 551’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired March 4, 2022. 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 PP13702, the photograph of Fisimp 551 printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP13702, 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
PP13702
Filed
March 4, 2002
Granted
April 1, 2003
Expires
March 4, 2022
Inventor
HOFMANN BIRGIT

Abstract

A new and distinct cultivar of New Guinea Impatiens plant named ‘Fisimp 551’, characterized by its upright and outwardly spreading, tall and uniformly mounded plant habit; freely branching and freely flowering habit; large rounded red purple-colored flowers that are positioned above and beyond the foliage; and dark green-colored leaves.

Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.

It is claimed: 1. A new and distinct cultivar of New Guinea Impatiens plant named ‘Fisimp 551’, as illustrated and described.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP13702 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.