US Plant Patent PP6527
Leo
African violet plant named Leo
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired June 1, 2007. 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
- PP6527
- Filed
- June 1, 1987
- Granted
- January 10, 1989
- Expires
- June 1, 2007
Abstract
An African violet plant named Leo, characterized by its long-lasting, non-dropping, double, solid blue flowers with frilled edges, strong upright flower stems, curving toward the center; profuse flowering; vigorous growth habit; very attractive girl-type leaves, wavy, strongly serrated with a white to light green center; and long lasting and non-dropping flowering habit.
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 Leo, as described and illustrated, and particularly characterized by its long-lasting, non-dropping, double, solid blue flowers with frilled edges; strong upright flower stems, curving toward the center; profuse flowering; vigorous growth habit; very attractive girl-type leaves, wavy, strongly serrated with a white to light green center; and long lasting and non-dropping flowering habit.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6527 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.