US Plant Patent PP4457
Rose plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired October 27, 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
- PP4457
- Filed
- October 27, 1978
- Granted
- August 28, 1979
- Expires
- October 27, 1998
- Inventor
- SAVILLE F HARMON
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 new miniature rose of deep yellow coloring which lightens slightly upon aging.
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 beautiful deep yellow blooms of strong fragrance borne primarily singly to a stem on a very compact plant of attractive foliage.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4457 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.