US Plant Patent PP6147
Smooth Lady
Rose plant named "Smooth Lady"
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired January 28, 2006. 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
- PP6147
- Filed
- January 28, 1986
- Granted
- April 12, 1988
- Expires
- January 28, 2006
- Assignee
- GURNEY SEED AND NURSERY CORP
- Inventor
- DAVIDSON HARVEY D
Abstract
A new rose variety of the hybrid tea class distinctive in its character by being thornless and by blooms of a high-centered pink color as hereafter shown and described.
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 class, substantially as shown and described, characterized by its lack of thorns or prickles at any point on the plant which is upright, well covered with glossy foliage which is disease resistance and having well formed pink flowers coming one to three to a blooming stem which repeat rapidly.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6147 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.