US Plant Patent PP4569
Julia
African violet named Julia
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired February 26, 1999. 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
- PP4569
- Filed
- February 26, 1979
- Granted
- July 8, 1980
- Expires
- February 26, 1999
- Assignee
- PAN AMERICAN PLANT CO
- Inventor
- FISCHER ARNOLD W
Abstract
A new cultivar of Saintpaulia ionantha distinguished by its continuous and profuse production of vivid and well defined bi-color flowers, borne upright above the foliage on erect and rigid peduncles and exhibiting clean white petals each narrowly bordered by a bright blue margin.
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 plant, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized by its profuse production of medium sized bi-color flowers borne upright on rigid and erect stems and having white petals each with a bright blue margin.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4569 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.