US Plant Patent PP4305
Miniature rose plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired April 27, 1997. 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
- PP4305
- Filed
- April 27, 1977
- Granted
- September 19, 1978
- Expires
- April 27, 1997
- Inventor
- WILLIAMS ERNEST D
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
The subject of the present invention is a new and distinct variety of miniature rose plant of the miniature class resembling the variety Over The Rainbow (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 3,472) but differing especially in the brillance of its orange color and the contrasting light color of the reverse side of petals.
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 of hardy, dwarf, bushy, much branched habit, essentially as illustrated and described, characterized by buds and flowers resembling the miniature rose `Over The Rainbow` in size and color effect, but the present variety being more brilliantly orange color on top side of petals and the reverse side of petals being light yellow to near white; and further characterized by flowers of symmetrical form with excellent lasting quality both on the plant and as cut flowers; the variety is also characterized by a vigorous, healthy plant, easily propagated from cuttings, which flowers almost continuously during the growing season.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4305 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.