US Plant Patent PP4467
Light Marta
African violet named Light Marta
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired November 8, 1998. 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
- PP4467
- Filed
- November 8, 1978
- Granted
- October 23, 1979
- Expires
- November 8, 1998
- Assignee
- PAN AMERICAN PLANT CO
- Inventor
- MCMILLAN EDWARD A
Abstract
A new African violet variety for potted plant culture particularly distinguished by the light lavender color of its flowers. Otherwise this cultivar exhibits substantially the same morphological characteristics of the variety "Marta" (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 3,610); of which the variety is a sport.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. A new cultivar of African violet plant substantially as herein shown and described, characterized by the unique light lavender coloration of its flowers.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4467 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.