US Plant Patent PP5600
Improved Oregon
African violet plant named Improved Oregon
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
- PP5600
- 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 Oregon, characterized by its vigorous growth habit, abundance of upright wire-like flower stems each of which produces 7-9 flowers having frilled edges and intensive pink flower color, profuse flowering, long lasting and non-dropping flowers, and by its dark green, generally round and finely serrated 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 Oregon, as illustrated and described, and particularly characterized by its vigorous growth habit, abundance of upright wire-like flower stems each of which produces 7-9 flowers having frilled edges and intensive pink flower color, profuse flowering, long lasting and non-dropping flowers, and by its dark green, generally round and finely serrated leaves.
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