US Plant Patent PP5063
Joyce
African violet named Joyce
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired May 28, 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
- PP5063
- Filed
- May 28, 1981
- Granted
- June 28, 1983
- Expires
- May 28, 2001
- Assignee
- PAN AMERICAN PLANT CO
- Inventor
- FISCHER ARNOLD W
Abstract
A new African Violet cultivar distinguished by its profuse production of medium sized, wine-red flowers of good substance and keeping quality and by its vigorous and strong growth habit which produces a compact plant of rosette form.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. A new variety of African Violet, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized by its profuse production of medium sized flowers, bloomed intermittently and borne on strong, upright stems.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5063 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.