US Plant Patent PP5032
Rose plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired October 5, 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
- PP5032
- Filed
- October 5, 1981
- Granted
- April 12, 1983
- Expires
- October 5, 2001
- Inventor
- MOORE RALPH S
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
This invention relates to a new and distinct variety of miniature rose plant primarily identified by its very double pink flower and the abundance of bloom.
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, rounded, much branched habit, substantially as illustrated and described, characterized by buds and flowers that are essentially pink in color, the outer petals being generally of a lighter pink than the inner petals giving the freshly open flower a blended or two color effect; the general habit of growth as well as flower form and color being similar to June Time (miniature--U.S. Plant Pat. No. 2,563), and further characterized by a plant of compact well rounded shape; vigorous; the said plant being easy to propagate from cuttings, with an abundance of small matte foliage and an abundance of flowers borne singly or several to the stem in loose clusters.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5032 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.