US Plant Patent PP4013
meilimona
Rose plant--meilimona variety
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired February 1, 1994. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on October 14, 1995, but this patent ends 620 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
- PP4013
- Filed
- October 14, 1975
- Granted
- February 1, 1977
- Expires
- February 1, 1994
- Assignee
- CONARD PYLE COMPANY
- Inventor
- MEILLAND MARIE-LOUISE; MEILLAND ALAIN A; RICHARDIER MICHELE MEILLAND
Abstract
A rose plant of the Hybrid Tea Class, with yellow double flowers obtained by crossing the variety COED (seed parent) with an unnamed variety (pollen parent), which was obtained by pollination of the variety MEJENOR 552 by the variety MESHA 566, the result of which was fecundated by the variety VERLA.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
We claim: 1. A new and distinct variety of Hybrid Tea rose-plant of vegetative reproduction, characterized by the fact that, from the physical point of view, the plant, with medium green adult wood, is erect, the flower is double, canary yellow; the petals are firm; from the biological point of view, this rose-plant is of vigorous vegetation, blooms continuously, is very good for forcing; good resistance to diseases, its flowers last a long time, either when cut, or on the plant, and its petals drop off cleanly; substantially as shown and described.
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