US Plant Patent PP5392
Miniature rose plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired March 9, 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
- PP5392
- Filed
- March 9, 1983
- Granted
- January 22, 1985
- Expires
- March 9, 2003
- Inventor
- STRAWN LESLIE E
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 Mars orange buds and flowers of distinctive form and further indentified by the erect, dwarf, compact plant.
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, hardy, dwarf, bushy, upright, much branched habit, substantially as illustrated and described, characterized by buds and flowers which are in a color hue similar to Thanksgiving (Hybrid Tea--Rose--U.S. Plant Pat. No. 2,524 -- expired) and giving a coloring effect of Mars orange flowers with buds being of Mars orange tinted brown and resembling Sheri Anne (Miniature Rose--U.S. Plant Pat. No. 3,826) in form and size, having buds and flowers of a distinct and unusual appearance as compared to other miniature rose plants; said flowers being fully double, having unique cupped form; and further characterized by its vigor, abundant foliage and ease of propagation from softwood cuttings and by budding, and with an abundance of flowers.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5392 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.