US Plant Patent PP5011
Rose plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired July 13, 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
- PP5011
- Filed
- July 13, 1981
- Granted
- March 29, 1983
- Expires
- July 13, 2001
- Inventor
- WILLIAMS J BENJAMIN
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 novel rose variety of the hybrid tea class characterized by large flowers of carmine-pink and ivory coloring, a vigorous upright growing plant with large dark green waxed foliage as shown and described herein.
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 hybrid tea class, substantially as shown and described, characterized as to novelty by flowers of unique carmine-pink and ivory coloring developing from large ovoid buds and borne singly and several together at times on strong stems and a very vigorous plant with large leathery glossy foliage very resistant to disease and very winter hardy.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5011 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.