US Plant Patent PP6111
Laurie
African violet plant named Laurie
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired January 28, 2006. 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
- PP6111
- Filed
- January 28, 1986
- Granted
- February 23, 1988
- Expires
- January 28, 2006
- Inventor
- HOLTKAMP SR REINHOLD
Abstract
An African violet plant named Laurie having purple-pink flower color which is a more intense purple in the center; very prominent and bright yellow anthers which create a very good contrast with the flower color; profuse flowering; vigorous growth habit and early flowering; and long-lasting, non-dropping flowers which form a tight flower head above the 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 named Laurie, as illustrated and described, and particularly characterized by its purple-pink flower color which is a more intense purple in the center; very prominent and bright yellow anthers which create a very good contrast with the flower color; profuse flowering; vigorous growth habit and early flowering; and by its long-lasting, non-dropping flowers which form a tight flower head above the leaves.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6111 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.