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US Plant Patent PP12561

Kibetio

New Guinea Impatiens plant named ‘Kibetio’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired August 16, 2020. 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 3 of US plant patent PP12561, the photograph of Kibetio printed in the patent.
Figure 3 from US Plant Patent PP12561, 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
PP12561
Filed
August 16, 2000
Granted
April 23, 2002
Expires
August 16, 2020
Assignee
PAUL ECKE RANCH
Inventor
KIENTZLER LUDWIG

Abstract

A new and distinct cultivar of New Guinea Impatiens plant named ‘Kibetio’, characterized by its dark pink-colored flowers with light lavender eye; freely flowering habit with flowers positioned above or beyond the foliage; rounded, somewhat upright and compact plant habit; freely branching growth habit; bushy appearance; leaves that are somewhat upright in aspect; dark green and somewhat glossy; and relative resistance to Botrytis.

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 ‘Kibetio’, as illustrated and described.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP12561 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.