US Plant Patent PP8567
Minature rose plant named Brian Donn
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired December 23, 2011. 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
- PP8567
- Filed
- December 23, 1991
- Granted
- February 1, 1994
- Expires
- December 23, 2011
- Inventor
- BENNETT CECILIA L D; O'BRIEN ADMINISTRATOR SUSAN M
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
The subject of the present disclosure is a new and distinct variety of miniature rose plant, named `Brian Donn`, which is characterized by dark red blooms ranging from near Maroon to near Ruby Red as buds, then opening to ranges of near Pansy Purple, near Chrysanthemum Crimson and near Indian Lake, and finally to near Currant Red and near Cardinal Red. Blooms of this rose are usually borne one to a stem with hybrid tea form but on occasion may be produced in sprays of 3 to 5 or more. The bush is vigorous, well-branched and produces moderate to heavy quantity of blooms.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
The following is claimed: 1. A new and distinct variety of miniature rose plant, named `Brian Donn`, of hardy, dwarf, vigorous growth, well-branched and attractive in appearance, substantially as illustrated and described, characterized by its hybrid tea form blooms of ranging from near Maroon to near Ruby Red as buds to ranges of near Pansy Purple, near Chrysanthemum Crimson and near Indian Lake as open flowers and finally tones of near Currant Red and near Cardinal Red in most open stages; usually borne one to a stem but occasionally in sprays of 3 to 5 or more.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP8567 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.