US Plant Patent PP5437
Miniature rose plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired August 22, 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
- PP5437
- Filed
- August 22, 1983
- Granted
- April 16, 1985
- Expires
- August 22, 2003
- 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, named `My Delight`, which is characterized by its blooms of pale Azalea Pink with slightly deeper inner petals and exceptionally good form.
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 named `My Delight` of hardy, dwarf, vigorous growth, attractive in appearance, substantially as illustrated and described, characterized by its blooms of pale pink with slightly deeper pink inner petals and exhibition form, easy to propagate from cuttings, with flowers borne usually one to a stem, but occasionally in sprays of 3 to 5 or more.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5437 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.