US Plant Patent PP4048
Arlene Francis
Rose plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired May 3, 1994. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on June 7, 1996, but this patent ends 766 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
- PP4048
- Filed
- June 7, 1976
- Granted
- May 3, 1977
- Expires
- May 3, 1994
- Inventor
- WEEKS O L
Abstract
1. A new and distinct variety of rose plant of the climbing class, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized particularly as to novelty by the long, extremely strong and vigorous canes which attain an average mature height of 6 to 8 feet, the habit of bearing its flowers on stems which grow as laterals from the climbing canes, and the long life of the flowers both on the plant and when cut.
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 climbing class, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized particularly as to novelty by the long, extremely strong and vigorous canes which attain an average mature height of six to eight feet, the habit of bearing its flowers on stems which grow as laterals from the climbing canes, and the long life of the flowers both on the plant and when cut.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4048 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.