US Plant Patent PP4429
Rose plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired May 5, 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
- PP4429
- Filed
- May 5, 1978
- Granted
- June 26, 1979
- Expires
- May 5, 1998
- Assignee
- SAN JOAQUIN ROSE CO
- Inventor
- BAILEY DOROTHY J 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
A novel rose variety of the hybrid tea class characterized by flowers of unique bicolor tonality 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 hybrid tea class, substantially as shown and described, characterized particularly by flowers of unique bicolor tonality combining ivory petal coloring with orchid pink washing and which color is maintained until petal ages at which time the orchid pink pigment extends throughout the upper petal surface, high center and by a vigorous, branching plant of spreading and upright habit of growth.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4429 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.