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US Plant Patent PP4598

Rose plant

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired June 18, 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
PP4598
Filed
June 18, 1979
Granted
September 30, 1980
Expires
June 18, 1999
Inventor
SAVILLE F HARMON

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

A new miniature rose of hybrid-tea shaped blooms of unusual coloring.

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 unusual salmon and carrot red blooms borne primarily singly to a stem.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4598 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.