US Plant Patent PP6394
Minerva
Streptocarpus plant named Minerva
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired January 30, 2007. 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
- PP6394
- Filed
- January 30, 1987
- Granted
- November 15, 1988
- Expires
- January 30, 2007
- Assignee
- MIKKELSENS INC
- Inventor
- DREWLOW LYNDON W
Abstract
A Streptocarpus plant named Minerva characterized by its numerous short leaves in rosette form, blue violet flower color, floriferous habit, compact growth habit, early flowering and ability to flower under low light levels and high temperatures, and by its long lasting and non-shattering 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 distinct cultivar of Streptocarpus named Minerva, as illustrated and described, and particularly characterized by its numerous short leaves in rosette form, blue violet flower color, floriferous habit, compact growth habit, early flowering and ability to flower under low light levels and high temperatures, and by its long lasting and non-shattering flowers.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6394 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.