US Plant Patent PP4027
Rose plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired March 29, 1994. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on January 23, 1996, but this patent ends 665 days earlier — a terminal disclaimer gives term back. A source that calculates twenty years from filing would tell you this plant is still protected when it is already free.
The record
- Patent number
- PP4027
- Filed
- January 23, 1976
- Granted
- March 29, 1977
- Expires
- March 29, 1994
- Inventor
- MOORE RALPH S
No cultivar name of record
This patent does not name the plant, and for its era that is ordinary rather than an omission. Before about 1980, breeders frequently patented a plant without giving it a cultivar name at all — the grant identified it by its number, its parentage and a written description of the flower and foliage. Most plant patents from the 1930s to the 1970s have no name in them.
Nothing here is missing from our records: the patent itself states no name. Where one exists we show it, and we do not invent one.
Abstract
1. A new and distinct variety of miniature rose plant of hardy, dwarf, rounded, much branched, bush type, as illustrated and described, characterized by buds and flowers of a color similar to Baccara (a greenhouse florist variety, H.T. rose) and in plant habit and flower size being similar to Pink Mandy, (miniature); the bud and flower color also resembling Fire Princess (miniature) but being of considerably darker shade, the general color effect being a dark red with a fluorescent orange undertone; the small buds having sepals which are noticeably longer than average with frilled or serrated edges; and further characterized by a plant which is vigorous and compact, the shoots and branches having very short internodes, said plant being easy to propagate from cuttings, with small glossy foliage, an abundance of bloom, with flowers borne singly or several to the stem in loose clusters.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
The following is claimed: 1. A new and distinct variety of miniature rose plant of hardy, dwarf, rounded, much branched, bush type, as illustrated and described, characterized by buds and flowers of a color similar to Baccara (a greenhouse florist variety, H.T. rose) and in plant habit and flower size being similar to Pink Mandy, (miniature); the bud and flower color also resembling Fire Princess (miniature) but being of considerably darker shade, the general color effect being a dark red with a fluorescent orange undertone; the small buds having sepals which are noticably longer than average with frilled or serrated edges; and further characterized by a plant which is vigorous and compact, the shoots and branches having very short internodes, said plant being easy to propagate from cuttings, with small glossy foliage, an abundance of bloom, with flowers borne singly or several to the stem in loose clusters.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4027 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.