US Plant Patent PP5617
New Mexico
African violet plant named New Mexico
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired March 22, 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
- PP5617
- Filed
- March 22, 1983
- Granted
- December 31, 1985
- Expires
- March 22, 2003
- Inventor
- HOLTKAMP REINHOLD
Abstract
An African violet plant named New Mexico having vigorous growth and upright flower stems, lilac colored, frilled and undulated flowers with a dark lilac margin and center; 7-10 large flowers per stem, and long lasting, non-dropping habit.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. An African violet plant named New Mexico, as described and illustrated, and particularly characterized by its vigorous growth habit and upright flower stems, lilac colored, frilled and undulated flowers with dark lilac margin and 7-10 large flowers per stem, and by its long lasting, non-dropping habit.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5617 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.