US Plant Patent PP4672
Rose plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired December 19, 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
- PP4672
- Filed
- December 19, 1979
- Granted
- March 17, 1981
- Expires
- December 19, 1999
- Assignee
- ARMSTRONG NURSERIES INC
- Inventor
- KORDES REIMER
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 hybrid Floribunda class, being a hardy outdoor seedling of the bush type, well adapted for mass display because its blooms are abundant, most of them being carried in clusters of as many as five or more to a stem. Flowers are from 21/2 to 31/2 inches across, and have from 32 to 40 petals and from 0 to 5 petaloids. The flower coloration is a distinctive purple-red as hereinafter described in detail.
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 Floribunda rose plant, substantially as herein shown and described, and being especially characterized in the distinctive purple-red coloration of its blooms, and in the abundance of its dark green glossy foliage, which covers the plant during the growing season.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4672 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.