US Plant Patent PP4597
Miniature rose plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired June 8, 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
- PP4597
- Filed
- June 8, 1979
- Granted
- September 30, 1980
- Expires
- June 8, 1999
- Inventor
- MEREDITH EARNEST A; ROVINSKI MARGARET E
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 primarily by the hybrid tea type, bi-color buds and flowers, basically white with deep Rose Bengal edges; the red coloring blending into the white area on the upper surface of the petals, but remaining essentially white with a distinct red edging.
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, erect, well branched habit; substantially as illustrated and described herein; characterized by a flower basically white with a distinct red border or edging; further characterized by its bush -- dwarf, erect, well branched, easy to propagate from cuttings or by budding; an abundance of flowers, borne singly or in loose clusters.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4597 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.