US Plant Patent PP4546
Hawaii
African violet plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired February 27, 1999. 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
- PP4546
- Filed
- February 27, 1979
- Granted
- June 17, 1980
- Expires
- February 27, 1999
- Inventor
- HOLTKAMP REINHOLD
Abstract
An African violet known by the cultivar name Hawaii and characterized by the combined characteristics of large, star-shaped, blue flowers which have white, wavy edges, with additional small petals occasionally occurring at the flower center; strong upright flower stems, and by its medium size leaves which have serrated edges.
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, as shown and described, known by the cultivar name Hawaii and characterized by the combined characteristics of large, star-shaped, blue flowers which have white, wavy edges, with additional small petals occasionally occurring at the flower center; strong upright flower stems, and by its medium size leaves which have serrated edges.
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