US Plant Patent PP5182
Miniature rose plant-white chipper variety
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired June 30, 2002. 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
- PP5182
- Filed
- June 30, 1982
- Granted
- January 24, 1984
- Expires
- June 30, 2002
- Assignee
- CONARD PYLE COMPANY
- Inventor
- COLLAZO EZEQUIEL
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 Miniature rose plant is provided having highly attractive double blossoms which are white with an occasional pink tint. The new variety is a mutation of the Chipper variety (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 2,764) which is known to bear coral pink blossoms. Other than the blossom coloration the characteristics of the new variety generally correspond to those of the Chipper variety.
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, wherein: (a) from the physical standpoint the plant is substantially identical to that of the parent Chipper variety with the exception of the blossom coloration, has an almost erect growth habit, forms light green shiny leaves, and forms very double flowers which are white with an occasional pink blush during the cooler months; and (b) from the biological standpoint the plant has vigorous and regular vegetation, exhibits an abundant and repeated florescence, and possesses the ability of its blossoms to last for extended periods whether on the bush or cut.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5182 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.