US Plant Patent PP6397
Orion
Streptocarpus plant named Orion
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
- PP6397
- Filed
- January 30, 1987
- Granted
- November 15, 1988
- Expires
- January 30, 2007
- Assignee
- MIKKELSENS INC
- Inventor
- DREWLOW LYNDON W
Abstract
A Streptocarpus plant named Orion characterized by its numerous pliable short leaves in rosette form, blue violet flower colors, compact growth habit, ease of propagation, floriferous habit, tolerance to low light and high temperature, ability to ship well, and by its long lasting, 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 plant named Orion, as illustrated and described, and particularly characterized by its numerous pliable short leaves in rosette form, blue violet flower colors, compact growth habit, ease of propagation, floriferous habit, tolerance to low light and high temperature, ability to ship well, and by its long lasting, non-shattering flowers.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6397 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.