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
- Assignee
- PAN AMERICAN PLANT CO
- 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.
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