US Plant Patent PP4972
Aurora
African Violet named Aurora
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired April 10, 2001. 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
- PP4972
- Filed
- April 10, 1981
- Granted
- January 11, 1983
- Expires
- April 10, 2001
- Assignee
- PAN AMERICAN PLANT CO
- Inventor
- FISCHER ARNOLD W
Abstract
A new and very distinct African Violet plant distinguished by its large zygomorphic-rotate flowers which have up to seven petals of a deep purple color, each trimmed with a narrow white marginal edge. This new plant has a vigorous growth habit and blooms profusely with strong stems to hold its unique flowers high above a medium green foliage.
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 plant, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized by its profuse production of deep purple flowers, each flower having its petals trimmed with a narrow edging of white.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4972 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.