US Plant Patent PP4755
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
- PP4755
- Filed
- May 1, 1980
- Granted
- July 28, 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 multi-color buds and flowers of yellow blended with pink, orange and scarlet and by the profusion of bloom.
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, upright, much branched habit, substantially as illustrated and described, characterized by buds and flowers of a rich blend of yellow, peach pink, orange and red, the bud and flower resembling the variety Circus (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 1,382, expired) in color and resembling the variety Over the Rainbow in form and size; and further characterized by a plant of vigorous and compact growth habit, easy to propagate from cuttings or by budding, with an abundance of small to medium size glossy foliage and an abundance of flowers borne usually singly on sturdy wirey stems.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4755 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.