US Plant Patent PP4993
Rose plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired July 15, 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
- PP4993
- Filed
- July 15, 1981
- Granted
- March 15, 1983
- Expires
- July 15, 2001
- Inventor
- MCGREDY SAMUEL 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
A new floribunda rose variety of carmine red flowers with light colored petal edges and flower center borne in large sprays.
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 floribunda class, substantially as shown and described, characterized particularly by large (5 to 12 bloom) sprays of flowers of unusual coloration combining carmine petal coloring and light colored petal edges and flower centers.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4993 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.