US Plant Patent PP4693
Rose plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired November 13, 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
- PP4693
- Filed
- November 13, 1979
- Granted
- April 21, 1981
- Expires
- November 13, 1999
- Assignee
- HARMON SAVILLE NOR EAST MINIAT
- Inventor
- SCHWARTZ ERNEST
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 burnt orange and yellow bicolor miniature rose which lightens to pinkish white tonality upon aging.
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 miniature class, substantially as shown and described, characterized particularly by burnt orange and yellow bicolor blooms borne primarily singly to a stem on a compact, well rounded plant of attractive foliage.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4693 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.