US Plant Patent PP4669
Rose plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired January 17, 2000. 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
- PP4669
- Filed
- January 17, 1980
- Granted
- March 17, 1981
- Expires
- January 17, 2000
- Assignee
- ARMSTRONG NURSERIES INC
- Inventor
- MCGREDY IV SAMUEL
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 rose plant of the climber class, having a very vigorous growth habit with long arching canes and dense foliage. Flowers are of moderate size, from 2 to 3 inches, and are borne mostly in clusters of 5 or more to a stem, readily creating a mass display. The blooms have a strong bi-color effect, dominated by bright orange intermixed with white. The plant flowers almost continuously during the growing season.
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 climber class, substantially as herein shown and described, said plant being especially characterized by the vigor of its growth habit, the abundance of its foliage, and most particularly by the bi-color effect of its flowers, which are of double petalage, a coloration dominated by bright orange, intermixed with white, said flowers being borne mostly in clusters of five or more to a stem.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4669 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.