US Plant Patent PP4497
Missouri
African violet plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired December 4, 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
- PP4497
- Filed
- December 4, 1978
- Granted
- January 29, 1980
- Expires
- December 4, 1998
- Inventor
- HOLTKAMP REINHOLD
Abstract
An African violet plant known by the cultivar name Missouri and particularly characterized by the combined features of vigorous and compact growth habit; intensive red-violet flowers with frilled edges; strong and upright flower stems; long blooming period, and an abundant flower display at first flash.
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 Missouri and particularly characterized by the combined features of vigorous and compact growth habit; intensive red-violet flowers with filled edges; strong and upright flower stems; long blooming period, and an abundant flower display at first flash.
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