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US Plant Patent PP5069

Miniature rose plant

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired January 25, 2002. 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
PP5069
Filed
January 25, 1982
Granted
July 19, 1983
Expires
January 25, 2002
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 rich pink blend of the bloom and distinctive plant growth.

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 Tiffany a hybrid tea.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5069 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.