US Plant Patent PP8899
Miniature rose plant, named Grace Seward
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
- PP8899
- Filed
- December 23, 1991
- Granted
- September 20, 1994
- Expires
- December 23, 2011
- Inventor
- BENNETT CECILIA L D; O'BRIEN ADMINISTRATOR BY SUSAN
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 `Grace Seward`, which is characterized by white blooms with only five petals. Blooms of this rose are usually borne one to a stem 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 `Grace Seward`, of hardy, dwarf, vigorous growth, well-branched and attractive in appearance, substantially as illustrated and described, characterized by its five-petaled blooms of white with flowers usually borne one to a stem but occasionally in sprays of 3 to 5 or more.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP8899 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.