US Plant Patent PP4713
Rose plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired April 14, 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
- PP4713
- Filed
- April 14, 1980
- Granted
- May 12, 1981
- Expires
- April 14, 2000
- Inventor
- WEEKS O L
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 floribunda rose variety of soft pink flowers borne in medium sized clusters which lighten 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 floribunda class, substantially as shown and described, characterized particularly by clusters of soft pink colored flowers which lighten upon aging beginning with buds showing yellow coloring at petal point of attachment and pink at petal edge and opening to soft pink blooms showing golden yellow centers in freshly open flowers.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4713 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.