US Plant Patent PP5923
Olympia
African violet plant named Olympia
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired July 18, 2004. 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
- PP5923
- Filed
- July 18, 1984
- Granted
- March 31, 1987
- Expires
- July 18, 2004
- Assignee
- BALL PAN AM PLANT COMPANY
- Inventor
- FISCHER ARNOLD
Abstract
A new and distinct cultivar of African violet named Olympia, particularly characterized by its distinctive pink-lavender flowers, its excellent year round performance with good heat tolerance, profuse flowering, and by its medium green, pubescent foliage.
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 Olympia, as illustrated and described, and particularly characterized by its distinctive pink-lavender flowers, its excellent year round performance with good heat tolerance, profuse flowering, and by its medium green, pubescent foliage.
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