US Plant Patent PP5099
Firerider
African violet named Firerider
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
- PP5099
- Filed
- April 10, 1981
- Granted
- September 6, 1983
- Expires
- April 10, 2001
- Assignee
- PAN AMERICAN PLANT CO
- Inventor
- FISCHER ARNOLD W
Abstract
A new and distinct African Violet cultivar distinguished by its very large, purple-red wine colored flowers which are produced profusely and borne in a bouquet above a bed of medium green foliage, the plant being further distinguished by its compact rosette form, rapid growth rate and its vigorous and strong 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 purple-red flowers of large size.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5099 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.