US Plant Patent PP5725
Arkansas
African violet plant named Arkansas
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired April 22, 2003. 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
- PP5725
- Filed
- March 22, 1983
- Granted
- April 22, 1986
- Expires
- April 22, 2003
- Assignee
- OPTIMARA
- Inventor
- HOLTKAMP REINHOLD
Abstract
An African violet plant named Arkansas having exceptionally long lasting and non-dropping purple flowers, with 7-10 more flowers being carried on upright, wire-like flower stems curving to the center, vigorous growth habit, serrated dark green leaves with margins slightly waved and which are symmetrical out of the center of a plant, and by its full bouquet and profuse flowering.
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 named Arkansas, as described and illustrated, and particularly characterized by its exceptionally long lasting and non-dropping purple flowers, with 7-10 more flowers being carried on upright, wire-like flower stems curving to the center, vigorous growth habit, serrated dark green leaves with margins slightly waved and which are symmetrical out of the center of a plant, and by its full bouquet and profuse flowering.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5725 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.