US Plant Patent PP4500
Iowa
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
- PP4500
- Filed
- December 4, 1978
- Granted
- February 5, 1980
- Expires
- December 4, 1998
- Inventor
- HOLTKAMP REINHOLD
Abstract
An African violet known by the cultivar name Iowa and particularly characterized by the combined features of single, violet-shaped flowers having an intensive blue-violet color; strong and upright flower stems rising from the center of the plant so as to carry the bouquet centrally and well above the foliage; and by its vigorous growth and compact 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 Iowa and particularly characterized by the combined features of single, violet-shaped flowers having an intensive blue-violet color; strong and upright flower stems rising from the center of the plant so as to carry the bouquet centrally and well above the foliage; and by its vigorous growth and compact habit.
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