US Plant Patent PP4350
Maine
African violet plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired February 22, 1998. 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
- PP4350
- Filed
- February 22, 1978
- Granted
- December 19, 1978
- Expires
- February 22, 1998
- Inventor
- HOLTKAMP REINHOLD
Abstract
An African violet known by the cultivar name Maine and characterized by large, single star-shaped flowers white in color, with violet-blue centers; strong, upright flower stems each carrying 4-5 flowers, and small, relatively light green foliage having serrated edges, with the flowers appearing just above the foliage crown.
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 Maine and characterized by the combined characteristics of large, single star-shaped flowers white in color, with violet-blue centers; strong, upright flower stems each of which carries 4-5 flowers, and small, relatively light green foliage having serrated edges, with the flowers appearing just above the foliage crown.
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