US Plant Patent PP4876
Rose plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired December 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
- PP4876
- Filed
- December 8, 1980
- Granted
- August 17, 1982
- Expires
- December 8, 2000
- Inventor
- MUNGIA SR FRED A
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 and distinct variety of rose plant of the climbing hybrid tea class, a sport of the unpatented rose variety known as Dame de Coeur, characterized by a very vigorous growing bush producing dark red flowers of good substance.
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 climbing hybrid tea class, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized particularly as to novelty by its general similarity to its parent variety, "Dame de Coeur", but different therefrom by its pronounced climbing growth habit.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4876 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.