US Plant Patent PP4037
Meirodium
Rose plant -- Meirodium variety
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired April 5, 1994. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on February 17, 1996, but this patent ends 683 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
- PP4037
- Filed
- February 17, 1976
- Granted
- April 5, 1977
- Expires
- April 5, 1994
- Inventor
- PAOLINO WIDOW OF FRANCIS MEILL
Abstract
A rose plant of the Hybrid Tea Class, with double flowers which are blood red on the inside and cardinal red on the outside, wherein the seed parent was the result of the pollination of the variety TANorstar by the variety MEIalto, and the pollen parent was the result of the pollination of an unnamed variety born of a crossing between the variety MEIbrem and the variety MEIalfi by the variety TANorstar.
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 lettuce green adult wood, is erect, the flower is double, blood red on the inside and cardinal red on the outside, the petals are firm and show a yellow unguis; from the biological point of view, this rose-plant is of vigorous vegetation, blooms practically continuously, its flowers last a long time, and its petals drop off cleanly substantially as shown and described.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4037 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.