US Plant Patent PP4799
Rose plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired August 8, 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
- PP4799
- Filed
- August 8, 1980
- Granted
- January 19, 1982
- Expires
- August 8, 2000
- Assignee
- JACKSON & PERKINS CO
- Inventor
- TANTAU MATHIAS
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 hybrid tea rose variety having orange-yellow to yellow flowers borne on medium length stems and having a light licorice fragrance.
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 herein shown and described, characterized particularly as to novelty by the unique combination of orange-yellow to yellow flowers on medium length stems, average thorniness and a light licorice fragrance.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4799 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.