US Plant Patent PP8468
Macmosco
Miniature rose plant named `Macmosco`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired January 3, 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
- PP8468
- Filed
- January 3, 1991
- Granted
- November 23, 1993
- Expires
- January 3, 2011
- Assignee
- MCGREDY SAMUEL D
- Inventor
- MCGREDY SAMUEL D
Abstract
A new and almost continuously and profusely blooming rose plant, of the miniature class, having conspicuous, open-faced flowers with petals of gently rounded shape but having a minute point on the centerline interrupting the otherwise rounded profile of the margin; such petals of pleasing, contrasting white and red stripes; the flowers being pleasantly highlighted by their placement over a healthy and dense crop of glossy, deep green foliage on an upright compact but vigorously growing, well branched plant.
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 miniature rose plant substantially as described and illustrated, which is particularly characterized by being easy to propagate, vigorous, hardy, bushy or upright habit; having blooms borne singly or in sprays from 5 to 7 which open quickly to a flat form showing yellow stamens; as having petals of conspicuosuly contrasting white and red stripes; and, the flowers being pleasingly highlighted by their placement over a dense crop of lush, deep green foliage.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP8468 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.