US Plant Patent PP6315
Madame
Madame violet rose plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired November 10, 2006. 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
- PP6315
- Filed
- November 10, 1986
- Granted
- October 4, 1988
- Expires
- November 10, 2006
- Assignee
- CARLTON ROSE NURSERIES INC
- Inventor
- TERANISHI KIKUO
Abstract
A vigorous rose plant of the hybrid tea class obtained as a seedling from a seed parent entitled "Lady X" and a pollen parent entitled "Sterling Silver" provide abundant long-lasting delicate violet blooms which maintain their true color from bud through leaf 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 "Lady X" and pollen parent entitled "Sterling Silver," characterized by its vigorous growth, its delicate violet color, its ability to yield on a continuous basis in a greenhouse flowers which maintain true color after being cut from bud through petal drop, and its ability to grow outdoors, substantially as shown and described.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6315 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.