US Plant Patent PP4773
Massachusetts
African violet plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired July 25, 2000. 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
- PP4773
- Filed
- July 25, 1980
- Granted
- October 6, 1981
- Expires
- July 25, 2000
- Inventor
- HOLTKAMP REINHOLD
Abstract
An African violet named Massachusetts, particularly characterized by its profuse flowering, with up to 15 stems carrying up to 12 or more individual flowers; lilac flower color, with a deeper purple color near the center; long lasting, non-dropping flowers, and by its compact, vigorous growth 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 Massachusetts, as described and illustrated, and particularly characterized by its profuse flowering, with up to 15 stems carrying up to 12 or more individual flowers; lilac flower color, with a deeper purple color near the center; long lasting, non-dropping flowers, and by its compact, vigorous growth habit.
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