US Plant Patent PP4447
Miniature rose plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired August 21, 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
- PP4447
- Filed
- August 21, 1978
- Granted
- August 7, 1979
- Expires
- August 21, 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 the present disclosure is a new and distinct variety of miniature rose plant characterized by the yellow color of buds and flowers and further identified by the unique "moss" on the buds, said moss being soft to the touch and fragrant (lemon).
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, rounded, much branched habit, substantially as illustrated and described characterized by buds and flowers which are (1) clear medium yellow in color, the buds and flowers resembling Yellow Jewel (miniature -- U.S. Plant Pat. No. 3,827) in size and shape and (2) the bud (sepals) being well covered with short moss, said moss being soft to the touch and giving off a lemon-like fragrance when rubbed or brushed; and further characterized by a plant which is vigorous and compact, easy to propagate from soft wood cuttings or by budding, with an abundance of flowers borne singly or several to the stem in loose clusters.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4447 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.