US Plant Patent PP4360
Rose plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired February 6, 1998. 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
- PP4360
- Filed
- February 6, 1978
- Granted
- January 2, 1979
- Expires
- February 6, 1998
- Inventor
- WILLIAMS J BENJAMIN
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 of the mini-flora (R) class characterized by its compact growth and blooms which are a blend of yellow, peach, pink and ivory, with a brilliant orange-red reverse.
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 mini-flora (R) class (dwarf-floribunda type) substantially as shown and described, characterized particularly by recurrent very small and well formed flowers borne singly and in sprays of 3 to 5 blooms having a cheerful blending of yellow, pink, peach and ivory with a brilliant orange-red cast on reverse of petals, on a well formed low compact plant, winter hardy and disease resistant, excellent for pot-forcing and use in tubs or planters for outside display.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4360 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.