US Plant Patent PP5275
Ginny
Rose plant `Ginny`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired September 13, 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
- PP5275
- Filed
- September 13, 1982
- Granted
- August 28, 1984
- Expires
- September 13, 2002
- Assignee
- WALTER JOHN C
- Inventor
- BISCHOFF FRANCIS
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of miniature rose plant characterized by its buds and high-centered, heavy-petalled blooms of red and white borne in abundance throughout the growing season, and further characterized by the bushy upright plant, well-branched with fairly short internodes, which is easy to propagate from cuttings.
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 miniature rose class, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized particularly by buds and flowers, which are generally white, edged with red in color, with many firm, thick petals, borne freely on a compact, bushy plant with reddish-green new foliage and dark green old foliage on branches with fairly short internodes, said plant being easy to propagate from cuttings, and said blooms being long-lasting both on the plant and as cut flowers.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5275 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.