US Plant Patent PP4714
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
- PP4714
- 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 unusual red and yellow coloring.
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 high centered flowers of Spinel red and yellow, borne primarily in small clusters but also singly to a stem and which retain the unusual dual coloring upon aging, but lightening to Neyron red and pale yellow.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4714 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.