US Plant Patent PP4769
Miniature rose plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired March 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
- PP4769
- Filed
- March 28, 1980
- Granted
- September 29, 1981
- Expires
- March 28, 2000
- Inventor
- BENNETT CECILIA L 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 delicate blending of soft pink and soft apricot plus high center and excellent rose form.
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 dwarf, hardy, bushy, rounded, much branched habit, substantially as illustrated and described, characterized by buds and flowers of a delicate apricot color near 609/3 and rose 520/3 and flower resembling the variety Helen Traubel a hybrid tea variety, (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 1,080, expired), in form and color, and further characterized by a plant of vigorous and compact growth habit, easy to propagate from cuttings or by budding, with a goodly amount of medium size semi-glossy foliage and an abundance of flowers borne singly on erect stems.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4769 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.