US Plant Patent PP4549
Ontario
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
- PP4549
- Filed
- February 27, 1979
- Granted
- June 17, 1980
- Expires
- February 27, 1999
- Inventor
- HOLTKAMP REINHOLD
Abstract
An African violet known by the cultivar name Ontario and characterized by the combined features of white, violet-shaped flowers carried on strong, upright stems; very rich flower production, with 15-20 stems each carrying up to 15 flowers; early and continuous flowering, and by its large and shiny leaves.
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 Ontario and characterized by the combined features of white, violet-shaped flowers carried on strong, upright stems; very rich flower production, with 15-20 stems each carrying up to 15 flowers; early and continuous flowering, and by its large and shiny leaves.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4549 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.