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US Plant Patent PP4443

Brilliant Eva

African violet named Brilliant Eva

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired August 30, 1998. 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
PP4443
Filed
August 30, 1978
Granted
July 24, 1979
Expires
August 30, 1998
Inventor
EPP MAXIEMILLIAN J

Abstract

{PG,1 A new variety of African violet plant distinguished by the medium violet-blue color of its flowers when compared with those of its parent variety, Eva (U.S. Plant Pat. No. {b 3,611{l ), of which the new plant originated as a sport.

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 cultivar of Saintpaulia ionantha substantially as herein shown and described, characterized by its medium violet-blue color when compared with its parent Eva.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4443 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.