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US Plant Patent PP6152

Smooth Velvet

Rose plant named "Smooth Velvet"

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
PP6152
Filed
January 28, 1986
Granted
April 19, 1988
Expires
January 28, 2006
Inventor
DAVIDSON HARVEY D

Abstract

A new rose variety of the hybrid tea class distinctive in its character by being thornless and by having blooms of a dark red 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 very tall and upright with dull and disease resistant foliage spaced apart, permitting stem visibility and having dark, full, well formed, velvety red flowers, generally one to a stem, which repeat moderately.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6152 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.