US Plant Patent PP4923
Rose plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired April 30, 2001. 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
- PP4923
- Filed
- April 30, 1981
- Granted
- November 9, 1982
- Expires
- April 30, 2001
- Inventor
- WILLIAMS ERNEST D
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
The subject of this disclosure is a new and distinct variety of miniature rose primarily distinguished by the high centered exhibition form of its blooms and unique blending of the rose pink and white colors.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
The following is claimed: 1. A new and distinct variety of miniature rose plant of hardy, dwarf, bushy, much branched habit, substantially as illustrated and described, characterized by well shaped buds and flowers, the petals being near white overlaid or flecked with rose pink on upper 1/3 (more or less) of the buds and flowers, resembling Over the Rainbow (miniature -- U.S. Plant Pat. No. 3,472) in size and shape; and further characterized by a plant which is vigorous and compact, easy to propagate from cuttings, with an abundance of small matte foliage and an abundance of flowers borne singly or several to the stem.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4923 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.