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US Plant Patent PP5094

Rose plant

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired May 27, 2002. 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
PP5094
Filed
May 27, 1982
Granted
August 30, 1983
Expires
May 27, 2002
Inventor
SAVILLE F HARMON

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 "hand painted" miniature rose variety of red and yellow coloring changing to pink and white.

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 rose class, substantially as shown and described, characterized particularly by "hand painted" flowers starting with current red and chrome yellow coloring changing to Neyron rose and white as flowers age.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5094 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.