US Plant Patent PP5087
Dark Prince
African violet named Dark Prince
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired April 9, 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
- PP5087
- Filed
- April 9, 1981
- Granted
- August 16, 1983
- Expires
- April 9, 2001
- Assignee
- PAN AMERICAN PLANT CO
- Inventor
- FISCHER ARNOLD W
Abstract
A new and distinct African Violet cultivar distinguished by its very double, wine-red flowers which have up to seven petaloids. This new plant is also distinguished by its compact rosette form, its vigorous growth habit and its very good keeping qualities.
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, characterized by its profuse production of very double wine-red flowers of medium size having up to seven petaloids.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5087 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.