US Plant Patent PP4991
Rose plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired September 11, 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
- PP4991
- Filed
- September 11, 1981
- Granted
- March 15, 1983
- Expires
- September 11, 2001
- Assignee
- JACKSON & PERKINS CO
- Inventor
- DICKSON A PATRICK C
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 miniature rose variety having a well branched, upright plant; orange-colored buds turning to light pink flowers; little or no 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 miniature class, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized particularly as to novelty by the unique combination of its heavily branched, upright miniature plant bearing orange colored buds opening to pink mature flowers with no fragrance, and its resistance to rose powdery mildew.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4991 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.