US Plant Patent PP4498
Oregon
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
- PP4498
- Filed
- December 4, 1978
- Granted
- January 29, 1980
- Expires
- December 4, 1998
- Assignee
- GESELLSCHAFTSVERTRAG UBER DIE
- Inventor
- HOLTKAMP REINHOLD
Abstract
An African violet known by the cultivar name Oregon and characterized by the combined features of large, non-dropping pink flowers with frilled edges, with a few flowers tending to semi-double; strong upright flower stems, and up to nine flowers per stem with the first flash of flowers, which occurs approximately eight weeks after potting.
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 Oregon and characterized by the combined features of large, non-dropping pink flowers with frilled edges, with a few flowers tending to semi-double; strong upright flower stems, and up to nine flowers per stem with the first flash of flowers, which occurs approximately eight weeks after potting.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4498 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.