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US Plant Patent PP16180

Tamar Lavender

New Guinea Impatiens plant named ‘Tamar Lavender’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired November 10, 2024. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on August 23, 2024. This patent earned 79 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP16180, the photograph of Tamar Lavender printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP16180, 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
PP16180
Filed
August 23, 2004
Granted
January 3, 2006
Expires
November 10, 2024
Assignee
FIDES GOLDSTOCK BREEDING B V
Inventor
MIEDEMA-JORNA ANITA

Abstract

A new and distinct cultivar of New Guinea Impatiens plant named ‘Tamar Lavender’, characterized by its upright, broadly outwardly spreading and uniformly mounded plant growth habit; freely branching and freely flowering habit; very dark green-colored foliage; and large, rounded, light pink and red purple 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 ‘Tamar Lavender’, as illustrated and described.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP16180 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.