US Plant Patent PP4241
Rose U
Rose plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired April 18, 1995. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on April 5, 1997, but this patent ends 718 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
- PP4241
- Filed
- April 5, 1977
- Granted
- April 18, 1978
- Expires
- April 18, 1995
- Assignee
- CARLTON ROSE NURSERIES INC
- Inventor
- VAN VEEN JAN
Abstract
A rose plant of the Hybrid Tea Class obtained as a seedling from a seed parent of the White Satin variety U.S. Plant Pat. No. 2,648) and unnamed pollen parent U.S. Plant Pat. No. 2,603. The rose plant of the new and distinct variety freely yields long lasting large blooms borne on long stems on a continuous basis in a greenhouse.
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 obtained as a seedling from a seed parent of the White Satin variety and an unnamed pollen parent U.S. Plant Pat. No. 2,603 characterized by its ability to yield large long lasting blooms on a continuous basis in a greenhouse, substantially as shown and described.
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