US Plant Patent PP7837
Melissa
New Guinea Impatiens plant named Melissa
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired August 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
- PP7837
- Filed
- August 5, 1990
- Granted
- March 24, 1992
- Expires
- August 5, 2010
Abstract
An Impatiens plant named Melissa having large, coral pink flowers, dark green foliage, early and floriferous flowering, and a 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 Melissa, as illustrated and described.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP7837 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.