US Plant Patent PP5670
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
- PP5670
- Filed
- August 22, 1983
- Granted
- February 25, 1986
- 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 `Think Pink`, which is characterized by its blooms of Carmine Rose Pink with softer shades of Carmine Rose on the outer petals and a fragrance similar to `fresh apples`.
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 `Think Pink` of hardy, dwarf, bush, much branched habit, substantially as illustrated and described, characterized by its blooms of Carmine Rose Pink with softer shades of Carmine Rose on the outer petals and a fragrance of `fresh apples`, easy to propagate from cuttings, with flowers usually borne singly or in sprays of 3 to 5 or more.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5670 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.