US Plant Patent PP4911
Miniature rose plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired December 5, 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
- PP4911
- Filed
- December 5, 1980
- Granted
- November 2, 1982
- Expires
- December 5, 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 deep shell pink, edged with a deep orange-red on the outer petals, and the excellence of form for the petite size of the bloom.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. A new and distinct variety of miniature rose plant of hardy, dwarf, bushy, much branched habit, substantially as illustrated and described, characterized by buds and flowers similar in coloring to the variety, "Tiki," a floribunda, a near azalea pink 618/3 page 74, in the "R.H.S. Horticultural Colour Chart", and further characterized by a low growing, compact plant of micro-mini proportions.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4911 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.