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
- 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 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.