US Plant Patent PP4433
Minnesota
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
- PP4433
- Filed
- February 22, 1978
- Granted
- July 10, 1979
- Expires
- February 22, 1998
- Assignee
- GESELLSCHAFTSVERTRAG UBER DIE
- Inventor
- HOLTKAMP REINHOLD
Abstract
An African violet named Minnesota having large star-shaped, non-dropping red-purple flowers, strong upright flower stems, with 5-7 flowers on each stem and 10-12 stems on each plant, dark green leaves, and vigorous 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 Minnesota and characterized by the combined features of large-star-shaped, non-dropping red-purple flowers, strong upright flower stems, with 5-7 flowers on each stem and 10-12 stems on each plant, dark green leaves, and vigorous growth habit.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4433 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.