US Plant Patent PP4268
Virginia
African violet plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired March 3, 1997. 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
- PP4268
- Filed
- March 3, 1977
- Granted
- June 20, 1978
- Expires
- March 3, 1997
- Inventor
- HOLTKAMP REINHOLD
Abstract
An African violet cultivar characterized by large pink, non-dropping flowers which have frilled edges, strong upright stems, with up to 10 flowers on each stem, and vigorous and uniform growth.
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 Virginia and particularly characterized as to uniqueness by the combined characteristics of large pink non-dropping flowers with frilled edges; strong upright flower stems with short peduncles; up to ten flowers on each stem; vigorous and uniform growth; saleability with the first flash of flowers, and its full flowerhead on second flowering.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4268 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.