US Plant Patent PP5690
Miniature rose plant-Schobitet variety
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired July 25, 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
- PP5690
- Filed
- July 25, 1984
- Granted
- March 18, 1986
- Expires
- July 25, 2004
- Assignee
- CONARD PYLE COMPANY
- Inventor
- SCHWARTZ EARNEST
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
A new and distinct variety of rose plant of the Miniature class is provided which forms in abudnance attractive fully double flowers which are clear yellow in coloration. The plant is low growing, compact, well formed, and possesses semi-glossy foliage. It performs well as an outdoor garden rose, or it readily may be forced into bloom while growing in a greenhouse.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. A new and distinct variety of Miniature rose plant, substantially as illustrated and described, having the following combination of characteristics: (a) a vigorous growth habit which forms a well-balanced, well-branched plant which commonly attains a height of less than 60 cm. and has semi-glossy foliage which exhibits a greater than usual disease resistance, (b) produces fully double, well-formed flowers of clear yellow coloration, fading eventually to pale lemon yellow coloration, which are of good substance and which are produced in abundance, and (c) has an ability to be used either as a fully hardy outdoor garden rose, or to be forced into bloom in a greenhouse as a flowering pot plant.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5690 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.