US Plant Patent PP4581
Miniature rose plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired April 27, 1999. 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
- PP4581
- Filed
- April 27, 1979
- Granted
- July 29, 1980
- Expires
- April 27, 1999
- Inventor
- WILLIAMS ERNEST D
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 bright orange color of buds and flowers and bi-color effect of the upper and lower petal surface.
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 of an orange or orange blend coloring, the buds and flowers resembling Gloriglo (Miniature -- U.S. Plant Pat. No. 4,305) in size and color, the present variety having more petals, and a more compact plant habit, the mature flowers often aging quite red in cooler weather; and further characterized by a plant which is easy to propagate from soft wood cuttings, with an abundance of flowers usually borne singly on slender wirey stems.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4581 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.