US Plant Patent PP5595
African violet (Lynn)
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired February 10, 2004. 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
- PP5595
- Filed
- February 10, 1984
- Granted
- December 10, 1985
- Expires
- February 10, 2004
- Inventor
- YOSHIDA EIICHI
No cultivar name of record
This patent does not name the plant. Through the 1980s and early 1990s that was still common: naming every new cultivar only became standard practice as plants began to be marketed under brand names. The grant identifies this one by its number and by a written description instead.
Nothing here is missing from our records: the patent itself states no name. Where one exists we show it, and we do not invent one.
Abstract
A new variety of African violet plant for potted plant culture particularly distinguished by its year around blooming capability, its profuse production of bi-colored flowers, and its compact, girl-leaf foliage of dark green color. An ideal plant for small potted plant production.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. An African Violet plant substantially as shown and described.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5595 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.