US Plant Patent PP4281
Rose plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired September 19, 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
- PP4281
- Filed
- September 19, 1977
- Granted
- July 18, 1978
- Expires
- September 19, 1997
- Inventor
- MCGREDY SAMUEL D
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 present invention relates to a new and distinct variety of rose plant of the hybrid tea rose class, which was originated by my crossing as seed parent the rose known as "Peer Gynt" and the rose known as "Brazilia" as pollen parent.
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, substantially as shown and described, characterized particularly by high centered, attractive bicolored flowers with thick petals and good substance, borne primarily singly and having a spiral, circular outline, and a vigorous, upright growing plant habit, with long stems and large foliage, and of particularly good disease resistance.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4281 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.