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US Plant Patent PP16227

Visinflipu

New Guinea Impatiens plant named ‘Visinflipu’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired December 19, 2024. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on September 9, 2024. This patent earned 101 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP16227, the photograph of Visinflipu printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP16227, 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
PP16227
Filed
September 9, 2004
Granted
January 31, 2006
Expires
December 19, 2024
Assignee
VISIO PLANT
Inventor
KIENTZLER LUDWIG

Abstract

A new and distinct cultivar of New Guinea Impatiens plant named ‘Visinflipu’, characterized by its rounded and upright plant form; vigorous and freely branching growth habit; bushy appearance; dark green-colored foliage; freely flowering habit with flowers held above and beyond the foliage; and large red purple-colored flowers.

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 ‘Visinflipu’, as illustrated and described.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP16227 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.