US Plant Patent PP9780
Something For Judy
Miniature rose plant named `Something For Judy`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired January 2, 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
- PP9780
- Filed
- January 2, 1996
- Granted
- January 14, 1997
- Expires
- January 2, 2016
- Inventor
- BENNETT CECILIA L D; O'BRIEN ADMINISTRATRIX BY SUSA
Abstract
The subject of the present disclosure is a new and distinct variety of miniature rose plant, named `Something For Judy` which is characterized by buds and blooms in shades of pale pink with a blush of deep pink on the outermost petals which age to near red. Blooms of this rose are usually borne one to a stem with hybrid tea form and sprays of 3 to 5 or more. The bush is vigorous, well-branched and produces moderate to heavy 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 `Something For Judy`, hardy, dwarf, vigorous growth, well-branched and attractive in appearance, substantially as illustrated and described; characterized by its hybrid tea form blooms, ranging from near Orient Pink to near Shell Pink with darker pink blush on the outermost petals of near Azalea Pink to near Scarlet, which are abundant on the bush and usually borne one to a stem but occasionally in sprays of 3to 5 or more.
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