US Plant Patent PP4735
Rose plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired May 16, 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
- PP4735
- Filed
- May 16, 1980
- Granted
- June 9, 1981
- Expires
- May 16, 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 hybrid tea rose variety of salmon flower coloring and pale apricot tones remaining attractive as open blooms.
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 hybrid tea class, substantially as shown and described, characterized particularly by salmon colored flowers developed from buds which appear bicolored and which mature into attractive open blooms with soft apricot toned centers and lighter salmon-toned outer petals.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4735 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.