US Plant Patent PP4699
Rose plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired February 28, 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
- PP4699
- Filed
- February 28, 1980
- Granted
- April 28, 1981
- Expires
- February 28, 2000
- Assignee
- HARMON SAVILLE NOR EAST MINIAT
- Inventor
- SAVILLE F HARMON
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
The new orange toned miniature rose which lightens to orange buff and Spanish orange 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 orange tone blooms borne singly and in sprays on a vigorous plant which alter to orange buff, Spanish orange and peach coloring upon aging.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4699 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.