US Plant Patent PP5607
Rose plant-Meikola 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
- PP5607
- Filed
- January 16, 1984
- Granted
- December 24, 1985
- 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 large attractive double blossoms which are light Venetian pink in coloration. The edges of the outer surfaces of the petals are lightly shaded with fuchsine. The new variety 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 characterized by the fact that from the physical point of view, the plant has medium green adult wood, an erect growth habit, and forms large attractive double blossoms which are light Venetian pink on the inner and outer surfaces with the outer surfaces of the petals being lightly shaded with fuchsine on the edges, and from the biological point of view, the plant has vigorous vegetation, and produces an abundance of long lasting blossoms, substantially as shown and described.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5607 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.