US Plant Patent PP4293
Rose plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired November 25, 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
- PP4293
- Filed
- November 25, 1977
- Granted
- August 15, 1978
- Expires
- November 25, 1997
- Assignee
- HARMON SAVILLE NOR 3 EAST MINI
- 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 novel rose variety of the miniature rose class characterized by unusual coloring contrasting scarlet red petals and dark yellow stamens which produce a yellow eye substantially as shown and described.
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 the unusual coloring which contrasts scarlet red petals of quickly opening flowers with yellow coloring at the base of the petals that, together with dark yellow stamens produce a yellow eye on a vigorous, compact growing plant that blooms profusely.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4293 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.