US Plant Patent PP4736
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
- PP4736
- 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 carrot red coloring but which may contain peach and dark orange tones.
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 multi-orange toned flowers developing into open blooms of more general carrot red tonality borne primarily singly to a stem and which are long lasting on the plant and as cut flowers.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4736 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.