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US Plant Patent PP4835

Light pink miniature rose

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired September 22, 2000. 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
PP4835
Filed
September 22, 1980
Granted
April 6, 1982
Expires
September 22, 2000
Inventor
SPIES MARK C

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 new light pink miniature rose.

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 miniature class, substantially as shown and described, characterized particularly by Venetian pink blooms borne on a vigorous, compact, well rounded plant of attractive foliage.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4835 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.