US Plant Patent PP4976
Evening Star
African violet named Evening Star
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
- PP4976
- Filed
- April 9, 1981
- Granted
- January 18, 1983
- Expires
- April 9, 2001
- Assignee
- PAN AMERICAN PLANT CO
- Inventor
- FISCHER ARNOLD W
Abstract
A new African Violet plant distinguished by its profuse production of star-shaped flowers of a pleasing violet color, borne as in a bouquet above the medium green foliage of the plant, and by its vigorous, compact rosette-shaped growth habit.
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 rotate actinomorphic flowers, having a pleasing violet color, borne in a bouquet above the plant foliage.
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