US Plant Patent PP5885
Marina
African violet named Marina
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired April 24, 2005. 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
- PP5885
- Filed
- April 24, 1985
- Granted
- February 17, 1987
- Expires
- April 24, 2005
- Inventor
- YOSHIDA EIICHI
Abstract
A new variety of African violet plant for potted plant culture particularly distinguished by its year around blooming capability, its profuse production of medium blue ruffled-edge flowers, and its compact growth with abundant foliage of solid green color.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. An African violet plant with blue, ruffled blossoms borne on a compact plant.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5885 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.