US Plant Patent PP5602
Improved Louisiana
African violet plant named Improved Louisiana
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired January 5, 2004. 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
- PP5602
- Filed
- January 5, 1984
- Granted
- December 17, 1985
- Expires
- January 5, 2004
- Inventor
- HOLTKAMP REINHOLD
Abstract
A new and distinct cultivar of African violet plant named Improved Louisiana characterized by its compact habit, strong and upright flower stems, frilled flowers which are light pink accentuated with darker pink spots around the center and in certain instances darker pink at the edges, and by its dark green and indented 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 plant named Improved Louisiana, as illustrated and described, and particularly characterized by its compact growth habit, strong and upright flower stems, frilled flowers which are light pink accentuated with darker pink spots around the center and in certan instances darker pink at the edges, and by its dark green and indented leaves.
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