US Plant Patent PP6788
Sweet Pickings
Miniature rose plant, named `Sweet Pickings`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired February 1, 2008. 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
- PP6788
- Filed
- February 1, 1988
- Granted
- May 9, 1989
- Expires
- February 1, 2008
Abstract
The subject of the present disclosure is a new and distinct variety of miniature rose plant, named `Sweet Pickins`, which is characterized by its pale pink blooms, ranging from near French Rose to near Venetian Pink. The blooms are usually borne one to a stem with hybrid tea form. The bush is vigorous, well-branched and produces a 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 `Sweet Pickins` of hardy, dwarf, bushy, well-branched and attractive in appearance with vigorous growth, substantially as illustrated and described; it is further characterized by its blooms of pale pink, ranging from near French Rose to near Venetian Pink, with hybrid tea-type form that are usually borne one to a stem but on occasion may come in sprays of 3 to 5 or more.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6788 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.