US Plant Patent PP4849
Rose plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired November 24, 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
- PP4849
- Filed
- November 24, 1980
- Granted
- May 25, 1982
- Expires
- November 24, 2000
- Inventor
- JOLLY BETTY J
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 pink miniature rose which lightens upon aging.
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 miniature class, substantially as shown and described, characterized particularly by pink blooms showing darker pink edges borne until reflexing and lightening and with flowers of different pink tonality visible at the same time.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4849 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.