US Plant Patent PP5627
New Orleans
African violet plant named New Orleans
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
- PP5627
- Filed
- March 22, 1983
- Granted
- January 7, 1986
- Expires
- March 22, 2003
- Inventor
- HOLTKAMP REINHOLD
Abstract
An African violet plant named New Orleans having upright flower stems, large frilled flowers lilac in color, with a more intense dark lilac on the frilled margins, vigorous growth habit with early flowering, attractive girl type leaves, and non-dropping and long lasting flowers.
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 African violet plant named New Orleans, as described and illustrated, and particularly characterized by upright flower stems, large frilled flowers lilac in color, with a more intense dark lilac on the frilled margins, vigorous growth habit with early flowering, attractive girl type leaves, and non-dropping and long lasting flowers.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5627 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.