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US Plant Patent PP5000

74-2179-18

Rose plant--74-2179-18

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired September 8, 2001. 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
PP5000
Filed
September 8, 1981
Granted
March 22, 1983
Expires
September 8, 2001
Inventor
WARRINER WILLIAM A

Abstract

A hybrid tea rose variety having an upright growth habit, large pink blooms darkening to red upon sunlight exposure, and little fragrance.

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 hybrid tea plant habit with non-fragrant blooms with photosensitive pigment changing from pink to red upon exposure to sunlight.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5000 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.