US Plant Patent PP4624
Rose plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired September 4, 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
- PP4624
- Filed
- September 4, 1979
- Granted
- January 20, 1981
- Expires
- September 4, 1999
- Inventor
- MOORE RALPH S
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
This invention relates to a new and distinct variety of miniature rose plant primarily distinguished by very double bright red flowers of carnation-like form borne in clusters and by the exceptionally long lasting quality of said flowers.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
The following is claimed: 1. A new and distinct variety of miniature rose plant of hardy, dwarf, bushy, rounded, much branched habit substantially as illustrated and described, characterized by very double flowers of a doubleness and form resembling that of a carnation, the buds and flowers resembling Fire Princess (miniature -- U.S. Plant Pat. No. 3,084) in size and color; and further characterized by a plant which is vigorous, yet more compact than Fire Princess, said plant being easy to propagate from cuttings, or by budding, with an abundance of small to medium size semi-glossy foliage and an abundance of flowers borne usually in small to medium size clusters.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4624 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.