US Plant Patent PP4975
Oklahoma
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
- PP4975
- Filed
- July 1, 1980
- Granted
- January 18, 1983
- Expires
- July 1, 2000
- Inventor
- HOLTKAMP REINHOLD
Abstract
An African Violet plant known by the cultivar name Oklahoma and particularly characterized by its large non-dropping flowers with frilled edges, generally purplish-red flower color, with certain petals being lighter in color than others, upright flower stems, vigorous and compact growth habit, and by its floriferousness, with up to 15 flowers being carried on each stem.
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, known by the cultivar name Oklahoma, as described and illustrated, and particularly characterized by its large non-dropping flowers with frilled edges, generally purplish-red flower color, with certain petals being lighter in color than others, upright flower stems, vigorous and compact growth habit, and by its floriferousness, with up to 15 flowers being carried on each stem.
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