US Plant Patent PP4277
Rose plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired September 2, 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
- PP4277
- Filed
- September 2, 1977
- Granted
- July 11, 1978
- Expires
- September 2, 1997
- 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
The subject of this disclosure is a new and distinct variety of miniature rose primarily distinguished by the well shaped rose pink buds and flowers, produced in abundance, and by the bushy easy to propagate plant.
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, bushy, much branched habit, substantially as illustrated and described, characterized by buds and flowers which are medium to deep rose pink in color, (often deeper colored outdoors), the buds and flowers resembling Judy Fischer (miniature -- U.S. Plant Pat. No. 3,137) in size and shape; and further characterized by a plant which is vigorous and compact, easy to propagate from cuttings or by budding, with an abundance of disease resistant small semi-glossy or matt foliage and an abundance of flowers borne singly or several to the stem in loose clusters.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4277 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.