US Plant Patent PP4415
North Carolina
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
- PP4415
- Filed
- February 22, 1978
- Granted
- May 15, 1979
- Expires
- February 22, 1998
- Inventor
- HOLTKAMP REINHOLD
Abstract
An african violet known by the cultivar name North Carolina and having sturdy, upright flower stems, with 10-12 single red-purple flowers on each stem; non-dropping flowers, and vigorous and compact growth habit.
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 North Carolina and particularly characterized by the combined characteristics of sturdy, upright flower stems, with 10-12 single red-purple flowers on each stem; non-dropping flowers, and vigorous and compact growth habit.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4415 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.