US Plant Patent PP6896
Hybrid tea rose plant 2105-F Strahle cultivar
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired March 21, 2008. 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
- PP6896
- Filed
- March 21, 1988
- Granted
- July 4, 1989
- Expires
- March 21, 2008
No cultivar name of record
This patent does not name the plant. Through the 1980s and early 1990s that was still common: naming every new cultivar only became standard practice as plants began to be marketed under brand names. The grant identifies this one by its number and by a written description instead.
Nothing here is missing from our records: the patent itself states no name. Where one exists we show it, and we do not invent one.
Abstract
A vigorous rose plant of the hybrid tea class obtained as a seedling from a seed parent entitled "Volare" and a pollen parent entitled "Tonight" provides abundant long-lasting solid velvet red flowers which maintain their true color from flower opening through petal drop on a continuous basis when grown in a greenhouse.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
What is claimed is: 1. A new and distinct variety of rose plant of the hybrid tea class obtained as a seedling from a seed parent entitled "Volare" and a pollen parent entitled "Tonight," characterized by its solid velvet red color which is maintained from flower opening through petal drop, and its ability to yield flowers on a continuous basis when grown in a greenhouse, substantially as shown and described.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6896 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.