US Plant Patent PP6647
Midnight Ruffles
African violet plant named Midnight Ruffles
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired August 13, 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
- PP6647
- Filed
- August 13, 1987
- Granted
- March 7, 1989
- Expires
- August 13, 2007
Abstract
A cultivar of African violet named Midnight Ruffles, characterized by its large single dark violet-blue flowers which have ruffled edges; dark green leaves, compact growth habit, and its floriferousness.
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 Midnight Ruffles, as illustrated and described, and particularly characterized by its large single dark violet-blue flowers which have ruffled edges; dark green leaves, compact growth habit, and its floriferousness.
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