US Plant Patent PP4283
Rose plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired November 11, 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
- PP4283
- Filed
- November 11, 1977
- Granted
- July 25, 1978
- Expires
- November 11, 1997
- Assignee
- CONARD PYLE COMPANY
- Inventor
- LINDQUIST SR ROBERT V
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 rose plant of the Hybrid Tea class originated by crossing Kordes Perfecta (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 1,604) with Belle Blonde.
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 (1) blooms which display a very wide spectrum of color ranging from bright yellow at the center through near white to deep rose at the petal margins, and (2) highly glossy foliage.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4283 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.