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US Plant Patent PP4843

Rose plant 72-2461

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired September 22, 2000. 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
PP4843
Filed
September 22, 1980
Granted
May 4, 1982
Expires
September 22, 2000
Inventor
WARRINER WILLIAM A

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 hybrid tea rose variety having near red, exhibition style blooms. The blooms having little fragrance and growing on a vigorous upright plant.

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 rose plant of the hybrid tea class, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized particularly as to novelty by the unique combination of its exhibition style flower form of light red, little fragrance on a vigorous upright hybrid tea plant.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4843 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.