US Plant Patent PP5157
Shreveport
Hybrid grandiflora rose cv. Shreveport
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired June 14, 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
- PP5157
- Filed
- June 14, 1982
- Granted
- December 13, 1983
- Expires
- June 14, 2002
- Assignee
- ARMSTRONG NURSERIES INC
- Inventor
- KORDES REIMER
Abstract
A new hybrid grandiflora rose having the following combination of characteristics: a profusion of brightly colored, well-formed flowers; an abundance of leathery foliage which covers even the lowest branches; it is a vigorous, easy to grow and easy to care for plant having an upright habit and a highly branched bush which lends itself to usefulness for landscaping purposes.
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 hybrid Grandiflora class, substantially as herein shown and described being particularly characterized in its profusion of brightly colored, leathery foliage covering even the lowest branches; its upright habit and highly branched bush; its above average resistance to disease and its vigor.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5157 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.