US Plant Patent PP6310
Seattle
African violet plant named Seattle
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired January 28, 2006. 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
- PP6310
- Filed
- January 28, 1986
- Granted
- September 27, 1988
- Expires
- January 28, 2006
- Assignee
- OPTIMARA ERFINDER GEMEINSCHAFT
- Inventor
- HOLTKAMP SR REINHOLD
Abstract
An African violet plant named Seattle having single, star-shaped light pink flowers; prominent bright yellow anthers; girl-type leaves; early and profuse flowering; vigorous growth habit, and strong and upright flower stems which carry the long-lasting and non-dropping flowers in a tight flower head above the 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 Seattle, as illustrated and described, and particularly characterized by its single, star-shaped light pink flowers; prominent bright yellow anthers; girl-type leaves; early and profuse flowering; vigorous growth habit; and by its strong and upright flower stems which carry the long-lasting and non-dropping flowers in a tight flower head above the foliage.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6310 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.