US Plant Patent PP6844
Honey Bear
Miniature rose plant `Honey Bear`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired April 4, 2008. 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
- PP6844
- Filed
- April 4, 1988
- Granted
- June 13, 1989
- Expires
- April 4, 2008
Abstract
The subject of the present disclosure is a new and distinct variety of miniature rose plant characterized by light apricot blend buds and flowers of distinctive form and further identified by the rounded, dwarf, compact plant.
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 of hardy, dwarf, bushy, upright, rounded, much branched habit substantially as illustrated and described, characterized by buds and flowers which are in a color hue similar to Colibri (Miniature rose--non patented) giving a coloring effect of light apricot blend and resembling Rise 'N Shine (Miniature rose--U.S. Plant Pat. No. 4,231) in form and size; having buds and flowers of a distinctive and unusual appearance as compared to other miniature rose plants; said flowers being fully double, uniquely formed and further characterized by a compact growth habit with abundant foliage, ease of propagation from soft-wood cuttings or by budding, and being a prolific producer of flowers.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6844 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.