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US Plant Patent PP5081

Miniature rose plant

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired April 5, 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
PP5081
Filed
April 5, 1982
Granted
August 9, 1983
Expires
April 5, 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 pointed petal's giving the bloom a starlike appearance.

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 decribed, characterized by buds and flowers.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5081 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.