US Plant Patent PP5066
Big Star
African Violet named Big Star
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
- PP5066
- Filed
- April 10, 1981
- Granted
- July 5, 1983
- Expires
- April 10, 2001
- Assignee
- PAN AMERICAN PLANT CO
- Inventor
- FISCHER ARNOLD W
Abstract
A new variety of African Violet plant distinguished by its intermittent but profusely blooming habit and its dark blue, star-shaped flowers of very large size borne as a cyme on strong, upright stems, the plant having a rapid growth rate and a compact rosette shape.
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 cultivar, substantially as herein shown and described, distinguished by its vigorous growth habit and its profuse production of very large, dark blue, star-shaped flowers atop a plant of generally rosette shape.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5066 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.