US Plant Patent PP4855
Rose plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired September 9, 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
- PP4855
- Filed
- September 9, 1980
- Granted
- June 8, 1982
- Expires
- September 9, 2000
- Assignee
- SAN JOAQUIN ROSE CO
- Inventor
- BAILEY DOROTHY J S
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 grandiflora rose variety of orange red to smoky red coloring, darkening to near currant red 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 grandiflora class, substantially as shown and described, characterized particularly by flowers of unusual multi-red toned coloration darkening upon aging to more uniform coloring.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4855 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.