US Plant Patent PP4030
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 April 19, 1996, but this patent ends 752 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
- PP4030
- Filed
- April 19, 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, substantially as illustrated and described, characterized by extra long lasting buds and flowers of a color similar to Fire Princess (miniature -- U.S. Plant Pat. No. 3,084) and with bud and flower form similar to Eleanor (miniature -- U.S. Plant Pat. No. 2,175), the general color effect being a bright shade of red (or orange red) with better than average color stability; the small buds having sepals which tend to remain against the opening buds and flowers; and further characterized by a plant which is vigorous and compact, being easy to propagate from cuttings, with small glossy to semi-glossy foliage, an abundance of bloom, with flowers borne singly or several to the stem in loose sprays or 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, substantially as illustrated and described, characterized by extra long lasting buds and flowers of a color similar to Fire Princess (miniature -- U.S. Plant Pat. No. 3,084) and with bud and flower form similar to Eleanor (miniature -- U.S. Plant Pat. No. 2,175), the general color effect being a bright shade of red (or orange red) with better than average color stability; the small buds having sepals which tend to remain against the opening buds and flowers; and further characterized by a plant which is vigorous and compact, being easy to propagate from cuttings, with small glossy to semi-glossy foliage, an abundance of bloom, with flowers borne singly or several to the stem in loose sprays or clusters.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4030 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.