US Plant Patent PP4577
Michelle
African violet plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired March 23, 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
- PP4577
- Filed
- March 23, 1979
- Granted
- July 22, 1980
- Expires
- March 23, 1999
- Inventor
- HOLTKAMP SR HERMANN
Abstract
An African violet plant having vigorous and compact growth habit; intensive blue-violet flowers carried on 7-9 flower stems, with up to 12 or more flowers per stem; attractive dark green, shiny leaves, and by its long lasting and non-dropping flowers.
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 as shown and described, characterized by the combined features of vigorous and compact growth habit; intensive blue-violet flowers carried on 7-9 flower stems, with up to 12 or more flowers per stem; attractive dark green, shiny leaves, and by its long lasting and non-dropping flowers.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4577 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.