US Plant Patent PP4224
Meinuzeten
Rose plant--Meinuzeten variety
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired March 14, 1995. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on March 21, 1997, but this patent ends 738 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
- PP4224
- Filed
- March 21, 1977
- Granted
- March 14, 1978
- Expires
- March 14, 1995
- Assignee
- CONARD PYLE COMPANY
- Inventor
- PAOLINO MARIE-LOUISE
Abstract
A rose plant of the Hybrid Tea Class is provided having double flowers which are Saturn red on the inside and ochre yellow on the outside. The seed parent of the new variety resulted from the pollenation of a seedling obtained by the fertilization of the variety MEIalfi by the variety Meifan 00186F with pollen from the variety King's Ransom. The pollen parent of the new variety was the variety Whisky Mac.
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 of vegetative reproduction, characterized by the fact that from the physical point of view, the plant with bronze green mature wood has a bush growth habit, a double flower which is Saturn red on the inside and ochre yellow on the outside, and consistent petals which carry a lemon yellow unguis on the obverse; and from the biological point of view this rose-plant is of vigorous vegetation, exhibits staged blooming which is rapidly remontant, has resistance to cryptogamic diseases, and long lasting flowers having petals which detach properly; substantially as shown and described.
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