US Plant Patent PP4662
Miniature rose plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired January 28, 2000. 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
- PP4662
- Filed
- January 28, 1980
- Granted
- March 3, 1981
- Expires
- January 28, 2000
- 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 soft yellow buds and flowers which are tinted with pink on edges and tips of petals.
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 of a soft yellow color being of a shade similar to Sulphur Yellow 1/3, the bud and flower resembling the variety Debbie (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 2,911) in form and size and, when grown outdoors, also resembling Debbie, in coloring; and further characterized by a plant of vigorous, compact growth habit, easy to propagate from cuttings or by budding, with an abundance of small to medium size semi-glossy to matt foliage and an abundance of flowers borne singly or in loose clusters of 3 to 5 or more.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4662 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.