US Plant Patent PP4619
Miniature rose plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired September 4, 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
- PP4619
- Filed
- September 4, 1979
- Granted
- January 13, 1981
- Expires
- September 4, 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 this invention is a new and distinct variety of miniature rose plant characterized primarily by its coral pink many petaled flowers and its much branched compact plant with medium green, disease resistant foliage.
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, much branched habit, substantially as illustrated and described, characterized by buds and flowers which are coral to rose pink in varying shades and/or blended with yellow, the color resembling Mary Marshall (miniature -- U.S. Plant Pat. No. 3,346) with general form and size also resembling Mary Marshall, and further characterized by a plant which is vigorous and compact with abundant medium to small size, semi-glossy, disease resistant foliage, easy to propagate from cuttings and by budding, with an abundance of flowers borne singly or several to the stem in loose clusters.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4619 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.