US Plant Patent PP4368
Rose plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired September 2, 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
- PP4368
- Filed
- September 2, 1977
- Granted
- January 16, 1979
- Expires
- September 2, 1997
- Inventor
- MOORE RALPH S
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 subject of this invention is a new and distinct variety of miniature rose characterized primarily by its deep red many petaled flowers and its much branched compact plant with medium green, disease resistant, foliage.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
The following is claimed: 1. A new and distinct variety of miniature rose plant of hardy; dwarf, bushy, much branched habit, substantially as illustrated and described, characterized by buds and flowers which are deep red, the color resembling Little Curt (miniature -- not patented) and the miniature rose, Starina (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 2,646) in general form and size; and further characterized by a plant which is vigorous and compact with abundant medium to small size, semi-glossy, disease resistant foliage, easy to propagate from cuttings and by budding, with an abundance of flowers borne slightly or several to the stem in moderately loose clusters.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4368 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.