US Plant Patent PP5722
Miniature rose plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired August 24, 2004. 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
- PP5722
- Filed
- August 24, 1984
- Granted
- April 22, 1986
- Expires
- August 24, 2004
- 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
The subject of the present disclosure is a new and distinct variety of miniature rose plant characterized primarily by the pink and white color blend of buds and flowers and further identified by the well foliaged symetrical 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 of hardy, dwarf, bushy, rounded, much branched habit substantially as illustrated and described, characterized by buds and flowers which are a blending of pink and white (sometimes with darker shading) with the reverse being white or near white, the buds and flowers resembling Beauty Secret (miniature--not patented) in shape but slightly larger in size; and further characterized by a plant which is vigorous and compact, easy to propagate from soft wood cuttings or by budding, with an abundance of flowers borne singly or several to the stem in loose clusters.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5722 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.