US Plant Patent PP4664
Rose plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired October 24, 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
- PP4664
- Filed
- October 24, 1979
- Granted
- March 10, 1981
- Expires
- October 24, 1999
- Assignee
- ARMSTRONG NURSERIES INC
- Inventor
- CHRISTENSEN JACK E
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 hybrid miniature rose of the dwarf bush type, many-branched and upright in habit. Blooms are of average size or larger for miniature roses, usually occurring three or four to a stem, but occasionally singly. The bloom has from 16 to 22 petals, generally, and the same coloration occurs on inside, intermediate, and outside petals and on the inner and outer surfaces thereof, this color being a bright golden yellow which fades after several days to a less bright shade of the same color.
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 miniature class, substantially as herein shown and described, and being further characterized in the well-formed golden yellow buds and blooms, the double petalage of which displays substantially the same coloration in outer, intermediate and inner petals and on the inner and outer surfaces of each petal, the bush being of upright and vigorous growth habit and profusely producing flowers of heavy substance and good color retention.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4664 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.