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US Plant Patent PP9987

Kawamoblue

Hybrid Tea rose plant named `Kawamoblue`

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired December 15, 2015. 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
PP9987
Filed
December 15, 1995
Granted
August 5, 1997
Expires
December 15, 2015
Inventor
KAWAMOTO HIROMOTO

Abstract

A vigorous rose plant of the Hybrid Tea class obtained as a seedling from an unnamed seed parent and a pollen parent named `Blue Moon` provides abundant long-lasting purple flowers which substantially maintain their true color 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.

I claim: 1. A new and distinct variety of rose plant of the Hybrid Tea class found as a seedling from an unnamed seed parent and a pollen parent entitled `Blue Moon,` characterized by the purple color of its flowers, which is maintained as flower opens, 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 PP9987 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.