US Plant Patent PP4265
Rose plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired August 4, 1997. 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
- PP4265
- Filed
- August 4, 1977
- Granted
- June 13, 1978
- Expires
- August 4, 1997
- Assignee
- SAVILLE F HARMON
- Inventor
- SCHWARTZ ERNEST
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
A yellow miniature rose plant seedling, from "Gold Coin" × an unknown pollen parent, having a high, yellow blossom display, an absence of thorns and prickles, and high shade tolerance.
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 miniature class, substantially as shown and described, characterized particularly by high centered, recurrent flowers of light yellow coloring which are long lasting on the plant until dropping and grown on a vigorous plant with abundant foliage and virtually no thorns which can grow well in reduced light.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4265 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.