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US Plant Patent PP5536

Kathryn

African violet plant named Kathryn

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired October 7, 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
PP5536
Filed
October 7, 1983
Granted
August 13, 1985
Expires
October 7, 2003
Inventor
FISCHER ARNOLD

Abstract

A new and distinct cultivar of African violet plant named Kathryn, particularly characterized by its large, dark blue single flowers having slightly ruffled petal margins; compact rosette habit, with the flowers being carried on erect peduncles; floriferous and intermittent year round flower habit, and by its medium green foliage.

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 Kathryn, as described and illustrated, and particularly characterized by its large, dark blue single flowers having slightly ruffled petal margins; compact rosette habit, with the flowers being carried on erect peduncles; floriferous and intermittent year round flower habit, and by its medium green foliage.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5536 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.