US Plant Patent PP8743
Tanravens
Floribunda rose plant named `Tanravens`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired April 22, 2013. 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
- PP8743
- Filed
- April 22, 1993
- Granted
- May 24, 1994
- Expires
- April 22, 2013
- Assignee
- BEAR CREEK GARDENS INC
- Inventor
- EVERS HANS
Abstract
A floribunda rose having heavily appendaged sepals; an abundance of small thorns on all branches; a vigorous, upright habit of growth; bright, dark green, glossy and healthy foliage; and bright red flowers borne in large clusters.
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 rose plant of the floribunda class, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized particularly as to novelty by the unique combination of the presence of heavily appendaged sepals; an abundance of small thorns on all branches; a vigorous, upright habit of growth; bright, dark green, glossy and healthy foliage; and bright red flowers borne in large clusters.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP8743 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.