US Plant Patent PP4303
California
African violet plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired April 12, 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
- PP4303
- Filed
- April 12, 1977
- Granted
- September 19, 1978
- Expires
- April 12, 1997
- Assignee
- GESELLSCHAFTSVERTRAG UBER DIE
- Inventor
- HOLTKAMP REINHOLD
Abstract
An African violet cultivar having vigorous growth and generally purple flowers and medium green leaves. The cultivar has 10-15 upright and strong flower stems, with each stem carrying up to 10 flowers, thereby providing a very strong and full flowerhead.
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 known by the cultivar name California and particularly characterized as to uniqueness by the combined characteristics of upright, strong flower stems each of which carries up to ten generally purple flowers; vigorous growth habit, upright, strong peduncle, medium green foliage, long blooming period, strong and robust flowerhead, and by its saleability after the first flash of flowers.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4303 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.