US Plant Patent PP4760
Miniature rose plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired October 2, 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
- PP4760
- Filed
- October 2, 1979
- Granted
- August 25, 1981
- Expires
- October 2, 1999
- Inventor
- WELLS JR VERLIE W
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
A novel miniature rose variety characterized by its double blossoms of sixty to seventy symmetrically arranged petals which remain relatively tight at maturity and are of satiny medium intense red color, the petals having a white creamy white base.
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 which is hardy, dwarf, medium-compact, well-branched and bushy, essentially as illustrated and described, characterized by buds and flowers which are double with from sixty to seventy petals arranged very symmetrically in a full, tightly rolled outwardly form with points at the center and remaining tightly rolled outwardly form with points at the center and remaining tight at maturity, being of medium red on upper edge of inside petal with an inside base of white to creamy white; and further characterized by the plant being hardy, reasonably tall for a miniature, and having good growth habits and disease-resistant foliage.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4760 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.