US Plant Patent PP5331
Miniature rose plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired March 14, 2003. 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
- PP5331
- Filed
- March 14, 1983
- Granted
- November 13, 1984
- Expires
- March 14, 2003
- Assignee
- SEQUOIA NURSERY
- Inventor
- MOORE RALPH S
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
This invention relates to a new and distinct variety of miniature rose plant primarily identified by the unusual red color, the petals being dark red (near black red) on outside surface and a lighter red on inside surface.
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 exhibition form, essentially dark red in color, the petals on outside surface being darker (blackish) red than the red on inside surface, and further characterized by a plant of compact well rounded shape; vigorous, with the main stems and shoots being of average thorniness, the said plant being easy to propagate from cuttings or by budding, with an abundance of small semi-glossy to matt foliage and an abundance of flowers borne singly or several to the stem in loose clusters.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5331 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.