US Plant Patent PP4564
Rose plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired March 5, 1999. 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
- PP4564
- Filed
- March 5, 1979
- Granted
- July 8, 1980
- Expires
- March 5, 1999
- Assignee
- CHATTEM INC
- Inventor
- JOLLY NELSON F
No cultivar name of record
This patent does not name the plant. Through the 1980s and early 1990s that was still common: naming every new cultivar only became standard practice as plants began to be marketed under brand names. The grant identifies this one by its number and by a written description instead.
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 present invention relates to a new and distinct variety of rose plant of the miniature rose class, which was originated by my crossing as seed parent the floribunda rose known as "Orange Sensation" and the miniature rose known as "Zinger" as pollen parent.
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 flowers of unusually constant orange red coloring which are very long lasting on the plant, up to 2 to 3 weeks, and as cut flowers, up to 7 to 8 days, and a vigorous, compact growing plant that blooms profusely.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4564 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.