US Plant Patent PP4512
Miniature rose plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired December 14, 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
- PP4512
- Filed
- December 14, 1978
- Granted
- March 18, 1980
- Expires
- December 14, 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 disclosure is a new and distinct variety of miniature rose plant characterized by the deep red color of buds and flowers and further identified by the unique "moss" on the buds.
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) dark red, similar to Honest Abe (miniature--plant patent pending) in color, the buds and flowers resembling June Time (miniature--U.S. Plant Pat. No. 2,563) in size and shape and (2) the bud (sepals) being lightly covered with short moss, said moss being soft to the touch and further characterized by a plant which is vigorous and compact, easy to propagate from softwood 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 PP4512 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.