US Plant Patent PP4648
Rose plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired November 2, 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
- PP4648
- Filed
- November 2, 1979
- Granted
- February 17, 1981
- Expires
- November 2, 1999
- Assignee
- JACKSON & PERKINS CO
- Inventor
- WARRINER WILLIAM A
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
Rose plant of hybrid tea class resulting from cross of Futura, U.S. Plant Pat. No. 3,569 with First Prize, U.S. Plant Pat. No. 2,774. Plant is vigorous, taller than First Prize and similar to Futura. Bud is red, changing to pink in blossom.
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 hybrid tea class, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized particularly as to novelty by the unique combination of its vigorous, upright, well branched habit of growth, its abundance of leathery foliage and its bud color of RHSCC 47A, the blossom aging from a pink similar to RHSCC 54B to a light pink similar to RHSCC 49D.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4648 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.