US Plant Patent PP10014
Meinipol
Miniature rose plant named `Meinipol`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired September 4, 2016. 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
- PP10014
- Filed
- September 4, 1996
- Granted
- September 2, 1997
- Expires
- September 4, 2016
- Assignee
- CONARD PYLE COMPANY
- Inventor
- MEILLAND ALAIN A
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of rose plant of the miniature class is provided which abundantly and substantially continuously forms attractive very double medium pink flowers which commonly are borne in clusters. The flowers tend to open slowly. The plant is erect and its dark green foliage is semi-glossy. The blossoms possess no fragrance. The plant can be grown on its own roots as attractive ornamentation in the landscape or as a decorative pot 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 characterized by the following combination of characteristics: (a) forms in abundance in clusters attractive very double flowers which tend to open slowly and which exhibit a medium pink coloration, (b) exhibits an erect growth habit, and (c) is particularly suited for growing on its own roots as an ornamental pot plant; substantially as herein shown and described.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP10014 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.