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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.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5600 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.