US Plant Patent PP4782
Glacier
African violet plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired July 1, 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
- PP4782
- Filed
- July 1, 1980
- Granted
- October 27, 1981
- Expires
- July 1, 2000
- Inventor
- HOLTKAMP REINHOLD
Abstract
An African Violet plant known by the cultivar name Glacier and particularly characterized by its large white, star-shaped flowers having five to eight petals; strong and upright flower stems; heart-shaped leaves, vigorous growth habit, and by its long lasting, 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 distinctive cultivar of African Violet plant known by the cultivar name Glacier, as described and illustrated, and particularly characterized by its large white, star-shaped flowers having five to eight petals; strong and upright flower stems; heart-shaped leaves, vigorous growth habit, and by its long lasting, non-dropping flowers.
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