US Plant Patent PP5683
Rose plant-Meifota variety
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired January 16, 2004. 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
- PP5683
- Filed
- January 16, 1984
- Granted
- March 11, 1986
- Expires
- January 16, 2004
- Assignee
- CONARD PYLE COMPANY
- Inventor
- MEILLAND MARIE L
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 new and distinct variety of Hybrid Tea rose plant is provided having fully double blossoms which are of an attractive pink coloration. The blossoms are produced in abundance and are of an attractive form. Since the new variety is exceptionally vigorous and a remarkably rapid grower, it is well adapted for the production of cut flowers while being grown under greenhouse cultivation.
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 Hybrid Tea rose plant, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized particularly by (a) an exceptionally vigorous upright growth habit, (b) the abundant formation of fully double blossoms having an attractive form which are of a dark salmon pink coloration, and (c) a very rapid growth rate which renders it well adapted for greenhouse cultivation.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5683 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.