US Plant Patent PP5115
Miniature rose plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired May 10, 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
- PP5115
- Filed
- May 10, 1982
- Granted
- October 4, 1983
- Expires
- May 10, 2002
- Inventor
- WILLIAMS ERNEST 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 red color of the buds and flowers.
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 hardy, dwarf, bushy, upright, much branched habit, substantially as illustrated and described, characterized by buds and flowers of a rich dark red color, being of a shade generally near Chrysanthemum Crimson 824/1, the buds and flowers resembling the variety Beauty Secret (not patented) in form and size but being darker red in color; and further characterized by a plant of vigorous and compact growth habit, easy to propagate from cuttings, with an abundance of small to medium size semi-glossy to matt foliage and an abundance of flowers borne usually singly on rather stiff wirey stems.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5115 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.