US Plant Patent PP16247

Visinforan

New Guinea Impatiens plant named ‘Visinforan’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired January 2, 2025. 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 115 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP16247, the photograph of Visinforan printed in the patent. — Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP16247, 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: PP16247
Filed: September 9, 2004
Granted: February 14, 2006
Expires: January 2, 2025
Assignee: VISIOPLANT
Inventor: KIENTZLER LUDWIG

Abstract

A new and distinct cultivar of New Guinea Impatiens plant named ‘Visinforan’, 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 bright orange-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 ‘Visinforan’, as illustrated and described.

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