US Plant Patent PP4536
Grace
African violet cultivar named Grace
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired February 26, 1999. 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
- PP4536
- Filed
- February 26, 1979
- Granted
- May 20, 1980
- Expires
- February 26, 1999
- Assignee
- PAN AMERICAN PLANT CO
- Inventor
- FISCHER ARNOLD W
Abstract
A new African violet variety distinguished by its flowers of a distinct light blue color borne in clusters on sturdy main stems to the side and somewhat above dark green and shiny foliage, its vigorous, strong and rapid growth, and the pink under sides of its abundant oval leaves.
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 African violet, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized by its distinct light blue flowers borne in clusters on sturdy stems to the side and somewhat above dark shiny green foliage which, in turn, is characterized by pink under sides.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4536 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.