US Plant Patent PP4385
Rose plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired February 3, 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
- PP4385
- Filed
- February 3, 1978
- Granted
- February 27, 1979
- Expires
- February 3, 1998
- Inventor
- MCGREDY SAMUEL D
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 miniature rose characterized by medium sized exhibition-style yellow blooms of yellow coloring borne on a vigorous, free-branching plant.
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 high centered, recurrent flowers of yellow coloring borne singly and in small clusters, opening from long pointed buds with long sepals displaying cerise shading upon showing color, produced on a vigorous, branching plant with abundant, shiny, waxy foliage.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4385 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.