US Plant Patent PP4626
Rose plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired June 25, 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
- PP4626
- Filed
- June 25, 1979
- Granted
- January 20, 1981
- Expires
- June 25, 1999
- Assignee
- JACKSON & PERKINS CO
- Inventor
- NIEUWKOOP JACOB
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 novel rose variety is a mutation of Mercedes and differs therefrom in its blossom colors which are of a more orange red than that of the parent variety.
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 floribunda class, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized particularly as to novelty by the orange or salmon colored hue of bud and bloom on the plant otherwise identical to the variety Mercedes.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4626 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.