US Plant Patent PP4282
Rose plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired September 29, 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
- PP4282
- Filed
- September 29, 1977
- Granted
- July 18, 1978
- Expires
- September 29, 1997
- Inventor
- WEEKS O L
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 new rose variety is disclosed in the hybrid tea class, whose flowers have exceptionally large individual petals and the number of petals on each flower is greater than the usual tea rose, resulting in much more rounded buds, the petals being translucent and creating an almost silken effect, the flowers hold longer than the parents and the canes are less thorny.
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 herein shown and described, characterized particularly as to novelty by the unique combination of a very large cherry pink to a rosey red bloom, the bloom comprising exceptionally large individual petals, with a large quantity of petals, the large quantity and size of petals providing a much more rounded large bud, the petals being translucent and appearing to be almost silken and of great substance, the ability to hold longer as a garden flower and cut rose, and the plant being less leggy and open with fewer thorns and more waxy foliage leaflets.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4282 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.