US Plant Patent PP4596
Miniature rose plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired June 1, 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
- PP4596
- Filed
- June 1, 1979
- Granted
- September 30, 1980
- Expires
- June 1, 1999
- 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 orange-yellow color of buds and flowers and further identified by semi-climbing or trailing habit of plant growth making it desirable for container or hanging basket culture.
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, much branched, semi-climbing, or trailing habit, substantially as illustrated and described, characterized by buds and flowers of a medium orange-yellow color, the buds and flowers resembling Magic Wand in size and shape with the present variety having more petals; and further characterized by a plant of vigorous compact growth habit with abundant, almost fern-like foliage, said plant being easy to propagate from soft wood cuttings or by budding, with an abundance of flowers born usually in small clusters on shoot tips and on short lateral stems arising along the longer main stems.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4596 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.