US Plant Patent PP4729
Miniature rose plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired May 1, 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
- PP4729
- Filed
- May 1, 1980
- Granted
- June 2, 1981
- Expires
- May 1, 2000
- 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 small well shaped buds and flowers, essentially a bi-color, the same being light to deeper shades of pink on upper petal surfaces and white to softer pink on reverse 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 bi-color buds and flowers, being essentially a deep pink to light red color on top surface of petal with the reverse surface being white or near white, the bud and flower resembling the Kathy miniature rose in general size and form; and further characterized by a plant of vigorous and compact growth habit, easy to propagate from cuttings, with an abundance of small size semi-glossy to glossy foliage and an abundance of flowers borne usually one to the stem.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4729 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.