US Plant Patent PP4083
Jofitali
Rose plant--Jofitali variety
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired July 26, 1994. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on May 24, 1996, but this patent ends 668 days earlier — a terminal disclaimer gives term back. A source that calculates twenty years from filing would tell you this plant is still protected when it is already free.
The record
- Patent number
- PP4083
- Filed
- May 24, 1976
- Granted
- July 26, 1977
- Expires
- July 26, 1994
- Inventor
- DE WITTE WILLEM
Abstract
A rose plant of the Grandiflora Class, obtained as a bud mutation of the variety Sweet Promise (known in the United States as Sonia) (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 3,095). The flower of this new variety is Rose Bengal on the inside and Spiraea Red on the outside.
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 Grandiflora rose-plant of vegetative reproduction, characterized by the fact that from the physical point of view, the plant is erect; the flower is double, very luminous Rose Bengal on the inside and Spiraea Red on the outside; the flower initially has a high-centered form; from the biological point of view, this rose-plant is of vigorous vegetation, has an excellent capacity for reblooming, great resistance to diseases, and its flowers last a long time whether on the plant or when cut; substantially as shown and described.
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