US Plant Patent PP5880
Minpco
Miniature rose plant named Minpco
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired April 29, 2005. 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
- PP5880
- Filed
- April 29, 1985
- Granted
- February 17, 1987
- Expires
- April 29, 2005
- Inventor
- WILLIAMS ERNEST D
Abstract
The subject of the present disclosure is a new and distinct variety of miniature rose plant characterized by the pink and yellow color blend of the double flowers and by the profusion of bloom:
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 to slightly spreading, much branched habit substantially as illustrated and described, characterized by buds and flowers of a soft to medium pink color, being of a shade generally near Azalea Pink 618/3 or deeper, the bud and flower resembling the variety Over The Rainbow (U.S. Pat. No. P.P. 3,472) in form, and Little Darling in color (but smaller in size); and further characterized by a plant of vigorous and compact growth habit, easy to propagate from cuttings, with an abundance of flowers borne usually one to the stem.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5880 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.