US Plant Patent PP4214
New Jersey
African violet plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired February 14, 1995. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on March 3, 1997, but this patent ends 748 days earlier — a terminal disclaimer gives term back. A source that calculates twenty years from filing would tell you this plant is still protected when it is already free.
The record
- Patent number
- PP4214
- Filed
- March 3, 1977
- Granted
- February 14, 1978
- Expires
- February 14, 1995
- Inventor
- HOLTKAMP REINHOLD
Abstract
A novel African violet characterized by its large, pink blossoms borne on strong stems and over a long period of time.
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 plant known by the cultivar name New Jersey and particularly characterized as to uniqueness by the combined characteristics of large pink flowers with frilled edges, with the flowers being non-dropping; long blooming period; upright and strong flower stems which form a bouquet above the leaves; and by the characteristic of being a saleable plant with the first flash of flowers.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4214 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.