US Plant Patent PP4365
Miniature rose plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired January 3, 1998. 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
- PP4365
- Filed
- January 3, 1978
- Granted
- January 16, 1979
- Expires
- January 3, 1998
- 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
The subject of this disclosure is a new and distinct variety of miniature rose primarily distinguished by the well shaped orange pink buds and flowers of heavy petal substance produced in abundance, and by the bushy easy to propagate plant.
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, much branched habit, substantially as illustrated and described, characterized by buds and flowers which are coral to orange pink in color, (often deeper colored outdoors), the buds and flowers resembling Starina (miniature -- U.S. Plant Pat. No. 2,646) in size and shape but more coral or orange (less red) in color, with petals of heavier substance; said plant being vigorous and compact, easy to propagate from cuttings or by budding, with an abundance of disease resistant small semi-glossy or matt foliage and an abundance of flowers borne singly or several to the stem in loose clusters.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4365 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.