US Plant Patent PP5083
Yoko
Hybrid tea rose named Yoko
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired April 22, 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
- PP5083
- Filed
- April 22, 1982
- Granted
- August 9, 1983
- Expires
- April 22, 2002
- Assignee
- NAKASHIMA TOSHIO
- Inventor
- SHIRAKAWA TAKESHI
Abstract
A new variety of hybrid tea rose intended mainly for greenhouse culture and the commercial production of cut flowers, characterized by a continuous and profuse production of very large red blooms carried on very long, strong stems; its pointed and somewhat globular buds which open slowly to produce well formed flowers having large petals which tend to marginally turn under and form points; its free branching and vigorous growth habit; and its abundant production of foliage and long lasting vase life.
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 rose plant, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized by the brilliant red color of its very large flowers which are borne on long, strong stems, and its year around abundant production of blooms on long, strong stems.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5083 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.