US Plant Patent PP4029
Miniature rose plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired March 29, 1994. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on April 1, 1996, but this patent ends 734 days earlier — a terminal disclaimer gives term back. A source that calculates twenty years from filing would tell you this plant is still protected when it is already free.
The record
- Patent number
- PP4029
- Filed
- April 1, 1976
- Granted
- March 29, 1977
- Expires
- March 29, 1994
- Inventor
- MOORE RALPH S
No cultivar name of record
This patent does not name the plant, and for its era that is ordinary rather than an omission. Before about 1980, breeders frequently patented a plant without giving it a cultivar name at all — the grant identified it by its number, its parentage and a written description of the flower and foliage. Most plant patents from the 1930s to the 1970s have no name in them.
Nothing here is missing from our records: the patent itself states no name. Where one exists we show it, and we do not invent one.
Abstract
1. A new and distinct variety of miniature rose plant of hardy, dwarf, bushy, upright, much branched habit, as illustrated and described, characterized by buds and flowers which are striped (variegated) in varying proportions of red and white of a color combination resembling Ferdinand Pichard (an older H.P. variety) and a plant habit somewhat taller than broad, the bud and flower form resembling Baby Darling (miniature -- U.S. Plant Pat. No. 2,582) and the size similar to New Penny (miniature -- not patented); and further characterized by a plant which is vigorous and compact, the shoots and branches having fairly short internodes, said plant being easy to propagate from cuttings (often blooming in small pot when plant is not over 6 inches tall) with small semi-glossy foliage, an abundance of bloom, with flowers borne singly or several to the stem in loose clusters.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
1. A new and distinct variety of miniature rose plant of hardy, dwarf, bushy, upright, much branched habit, as illustrated and described, characterized by buds and flowers which are striped (variegated) in varying proportions of red and white of a color combination resembling Ferdinand Pichard (an older H.P. variety) and a plant habit somewhat taller than broad, the bud and flower form resembling Baby Darling (miniature -- U.S. Plant Pat. No. 2,582) and the size similar to New Penny (miniature -- not patented); and further characterized by a plant which is vigorous and compact, the shoots and branches having fairly short internodes, said plant being easy to propagate from cuttings (often blooming in small pot when plant is not over 6 inches tall) with small semi-glossy foliage, an abundance of bloom, with flowers borne singly or several to the stem in loose clusters.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4029 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.