US Plant Patent PP4266
Colorado
African violet plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired November 30, 1996. 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
- PP4266
- Filed
- November 30, 1976
- Granted
- June 20, 1978
- Expires
- November 30, 1996
- Inventor
- HOLTKAMP REINHOLD
Abstract
An African violet plant having purplish-red flower color, frilled petal edges, vigorous and compact growth, upright and strong flower stems, profuse blooming and long blooming period.
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 Colorado and characterized as to novelty by the combined characteristics of purplish-red flower color, frilled petal edges, vigorous and compact growth, upright and strong flower stems, profuse blooming and long blooming period.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4266 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.