US Plant Patent PP4625
Rose plant-Meigronuri variety
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired June 22, 1999. 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
- PP4625
- Filed
- June 22, 1979
- Granted
- January 20, 1981
- Expires
- June 22, 1999
- Assignee
- CONARD PYLE COMPANY
- Inventor
- MEILLAND MARIE-LOUISE
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 rose plant of the Floribunda class is provided having abundant long lasting double flowers which are lemon yellow suffused with buttercup yellow. The seed parent of the new variety was the variety Poppy Flash and the pollen parent resulted from the crossing of the variety Meiridge with the variety Allgold. The vegetation of the new variety is vigorous.
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 Floribunda rose plant characterized by the fact that: from the physical point of view the plant is bushy, the mature wood is light green, the flower is double and the petals are of a lemon yellow color suffused with buttercup yellow; and from the biological point of view the vegetation is vigorous, the flowering habit is very abundant, the flowers are long lasting, and the petals drop off cleanly; substantially as shown and described.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4625 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.