US Plant Patent PP5561
Purple Martin
Distinct variety of Streptocarpus named Purple Martin
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired December 12, 2003. 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
- PP5561
- Filed
- December 12, 1983
- Granted
- September 24, 1985
- Expires
- December 12, 2003
- Inventor
- HOPKA CHRISTIAN
Abstract
A new cultivar of Streptocarpus x hybridus plant is characterized by rapid and abundant production of unique two-toned violet flowers, and a compact plant 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 variety of Streptocarpus substantially as herein shown and described.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5561 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.