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US Plant Patent PP7442

Western Sunlight

Rose plant named Western Sunlight

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired December 26, 2009. 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
PP7442
Filed
December 26, 1989
Granted
February 12, 1991
Expires
December 26, 2009

Abstract

A new rose variety of the hydrid tea class characterized by having high pointed flowers with apricot-orange inner petals and broad light orange outer petals which flex back with unusually fine form.

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 having large light orange to apricot colored single blooms with very high pointed centers and broad petals which sequentially flex back with unusually fine form; having rapid repeat bloom cycle and having glossy foliage with very distinctive serration on a vigorous disease resistant bush of moderate height.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP7442 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.