US Plant Patent PP4666
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
- PP4666
- Filed
- October 24, 1979
- Granted
- March 10, 1981
- Expires
- October 24, 1999
- Assignee
- ARMSTRONG NURSERIES INC
- Inventor
- SWIM HERBERT C; 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 new variety of rose plant of the floribunda class, being a dwarf bush seedling, much branched and of moderately vigorous growth. Flowers are borne sometimes singly, sometimes three or more in irregular clusters on short to medium-length stems. The petal color, both inside and outsie, is a bright golden yellow, fading at maturity to a lighter shade of the same color. The plant blooms profusely, with from 20 to 26 broad round petals on a plant of nearly ideal floribunda habit.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
We claim: 1. A new and distinct variety of rose plant of the floribunda class, substantially as herein shown and described, and being particularly characterized by the brilliant golden yellow color of its blooms, the buds and flowers being well-formed and relatively large, with 20 to 26 broad round petals, blooming profusely substantially throughout the growing season.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4666 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.