US Plant Patent PP5068
Swan Lake
African Violet named Swan Lake
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
- PP5068
- Filed
- April 9, 1981
- Granted
- July 12, 1983
- Expires
- April 9, 2001
- Assignee
- PAN AMERICAN PLANT CO
- Inventor
- FISCHER ARNOLD W
Abstract
A new and distinct African Violet cultivar characterized by its intermittent blooming habit and its profuse production of blossoms when flowering, and by its large, star-shaped, flowers which are borne in a cluster above the foliage on strong, upright stems, the flowers being particularly graced by their gently ruffled petals.
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 large, deep pink flowers borne on upright stems to cluster above the plant foliage.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5068 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.