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US Plant Patent PP15460

Fisnics Sweet Red

New Guinea Impatiens plant named ‘Fisnics Sweet Red’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired September 10, 2023. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on June 3, 2023. This patent earned 99 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP15460, the photograph of Fisnics Sweet Red printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP15460, 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
PP15460
Filed
June 3, 2003
Granted
January 4, 2005
Expires
September 10, 2023
Inventor
HOFMANN BIRGIT CHRISTA

Abstract

A new and distinct cultivar of New Guinea Impatiens plant named ‘Fisnics Sweet Red’, characterized by its outwardly spreading and uniformly mounded plant habit; medium growth habit; freely branching and freely flowering habit; dark green-colored foliage; and medium to large, rounded, light pink and red bi-colored flowers that are positioned above and 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 ‘Fisnics Sweet Red’, as illustrated and described.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP15460 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.