US Plant Patent PP4495
Miniature rose plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired November 24, 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
- PP4495
- Filed
- November 24, 1978
- Granted
- January 22, 1980
- Expires
- November 24, 1998
- Inventor
- MOORE RALPH S
No cultivar name of record
This patent does not name the plant. Through the 1980s and early 1990s that was still common: naming every new cultivar only became standard practice as plants began to be marketed under brand names. The grant identifies this one by its number and by a written description instead.
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 described invention is a new and distinct variety of miniature rose plant characterized by small double flowers of a mixture of colors, being primarily shades of red and white in varying patterns or stripes and a plant similar to but more vigorous and with more stocky canes than Stars'N Stripes.
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, compact, spreading much branched habit, substantially as illustrated and described, characterized by buds and flowers which are (A) variegated or striped in varying shades of red and white, the bud and flower resembling Stars'N Stripes miniature (Plant Pat. No. 4,029) in size and shape but with more petals; and (B) further characterized by a plant which is vigorous, of compact spreading habit, easy to propagate from cuttings or by budding, with an abundance of small size semiglossy to matt foliage and an abundance of flowers borne singly or several to the stem in loose clusters.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4495 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.