US Plant Patent PP4225
Bucbi
Rose plant named Bucbi
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired March 21, 1995. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on December 10, 1996, but this patent ends 630 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
- PP4225
- Filed
- December 10, 1976
- Granted
- March 21, 1978
- Expires
- March 21, 1995
- Assignee
- UNIV IOWA STATE RES FOUND INC
- Inventor
- BUCK GRIFFITH J
Abstract
A new variety of everblooming rose bush distinguished by its tolerance of cold winter temperatures, its profuse production of large pink flowers which bloom continuously during the growing season, and its utility either as a low everblooming shrub or as a mass-effect, low maintenance bedding plant.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. The new and distinct variety of rose plant substantially as herein shown and described, characterized by its tolerance to cold winter temperatures, its continuous and profuse vase-life production of very large, delicate pink flowers throughout the growing season, and its adaptability for use as a low shrub or as a mass effect, low-maintenance bedding plant.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4225 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.