US Plant Patent PP6106
Little Saphire
African violet named Little Saphire
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired January 28, 2006. 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
- PP6106
- Filed
- January 28, 1986
- Granted
- February 16, 1988
- Expires
- January 28, 2006
- Inventor
- HOLTKAMP SR REINHOLD
Abstract
An African violet plant named Little Saphire having a miniature growth habit; single, violet-blue flowers; strong stems which curve toward the center of the plant; early, profuse and continuous flowering, and long-lasting, non-dropping flowers which form a flower head above the leaves.
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 cultivar of African violet named Little Saphire, as illustrated and described, and particularly characterized by its miniature growth habit; single, violet-blue flowers; strong stems which curve toward center of plant; early, profuse and continuous flowering, and by its long-lasting and non-dropping flowers which form a flower head above the leaves.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6106 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.