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
- Assignee
- PAN AMERICAN PLANT CO
- 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.
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