US Plant Patent PP4440
Rose plant--Eterna
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired December 12, 1997. 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
- PP4440
- Filed
- December 12, 1977
- Granted
- July 17, 1979
- Expires
- December 12, 1997
- Assignee
- JACKSON & PERKINS CO
- Inventor
- DELBARD GEORGES A
No cultivar name of record
This patent does not name the plant, and for its era that is ordinary rather than an omission. Before about 1980, breeders frequently patented a plant without giving it a cultivar name at all — the grant identified it by its number, its parentage and a written description of the flower and foliage. Most plant patents from the 1930s to the 1970s have no name in them.
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 vigorous, upright, well-branched rose plant of the hybrid tea class, with heavy, straight stems, having a unique clear color of Wilson's French Rose, with very 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 cultivar of rose of the hybrid tea class, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized particularly as to novelty by the unique combination of its uniform color of French Rose from bud to well-developed open flower; its vigorous plant, straight and relatively heavy stems.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4440 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.