US Plant Patent PP4284
Hybrid tea rose plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired November 10, 1997. 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
- PP4284
- Filed
- November 10, 1977
- Granted
- July 25, 1978
- Expires
- November 10, 1997
- Assignee
- CONARD PYLE COMPANY
- Inventor
- LINDQUIST SR ROBERT V
No cultivar name of record
This patent does not name the plant, and for its era that is ordinary rather than an omission. Before about 1980, breeders frequently patented a plant without giving it a cultivar name at all — the grant identified it by its number, its parentage and a written description of the flower and foliage. Most plant patents from the 1930s to the 1970s have no name in them.
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 rose plant of the Hybrid Tea class originated by the crossing of Fragrant Cloud (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 2,574) with Miss All-American Beauty (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 2,625).
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 substantially as herein shown and described, characterized particularly as to novelty by (1) blooms which display a spectrum of red shades ranging from a lighter hue at the petal base to a vibrant watermelon red on the petal edge which is particularly dramatic under sunny skies, and (2) a vigorous and erect growth habit.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4284 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.