US Plant Patent PP5855
Ink Spots
Rose plant named Ink Spots
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired February 4, 2005. 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
- PP5855
- Filed
- February 4, 1985
- Granted
- January 13, 1987
- Expires
- February 4, 2005
- Inventor
- WEEKS O L
Abstract
A new dark red hybrid tea rose variety with blackish markings on the petals.
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 rose plant of the hybrid tea rose class, substantially as shown and described, characterized particularly by well formed, very dark red flowers with blackish markings on the petals borne one to a stem on a vigorous plant with attractive foliage and which are long lasting on the plant and as cut flowers.
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