US Plant Patent PP5191
Don Juan
African violet plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired June 21, 2002. 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
- PP5191
- Filed
- June 21, 1982
- Granted
- February 14, 1984
- Expires
- June 21, 2002
- Assignee
- PAN AMERICAN PLANT CO
- Inventor
- FISCHER ARNOLD
Abstract
An African violet cultivar known by the cultivar name of Don Juan having semi-double to double lavender flowers carried on erect peduncles so as to position the profuse bouquet above the foliage.
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 Don Juan, as described and illustrated, and particularly characterized by its semi-double to double lavender flowers carried on strong and erect peduncles so as to position the flower bouquet well above the dark foliage.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5191 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.