US Plant Patent PP4796
Rose plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired August 11, 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
- PP4796
- Filed
- August 11, 1980
- Granted
- January 19, 1982
- Expires
- August 11, 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 climbing sport of the rose variety described in U.S. Plant Pat. No. 4,552.
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 climbing variety of rose plant substantially as shown and described, which is a sport of the bush variety described in U.S. Plant Pat. No. 4,552, characterized particularly by its climbing habit of growth producing long canes and the habit of bearing flowers on stems which grow as laterals from the climbing canes.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4796 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.