US Plant Patent PP4963
Patricia
African violet named Patricia
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired April 9, 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
- PP4963
- Filed
- April 9, 1981
- Granted
- December 7, 1982
- Expires
- April 9, 2001
- Assignee
- PAN AMERICAN PLANT CO
- Inventor
- FISCHER ARNOLD W
Abstract
A new and distinct African Violet plant characterized by its vigorous growth habit and profuse production of dark blue flowers of excellent substance and of single to semi-double form. The flower corolla is rotate and sympetalous and the flower has an excellent keeping quality.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. A new African Violet cultivar, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized by its profuse production of large, dark blue flowers of single and semi-double form borne on upright stems to cluster as a bouquet above the plant foliage.
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