US Plant Patent PP5109
Rose plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired May 4, 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
- PP5109
- Filed
- May 4, 1981
- Granted
- September 27, 1983
- Expires
- May 4, 2001
- Inventor
- WILLIAMS ERNEST 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
The subject of this disclosure is a new and distinct variety of miniature rose primarily distinguished by the well shaped buds and flowers of contrasting red and yellow produced in abundance, and by the bushy easy to propagate plant.
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, much branched habit, substantially as illustrated and described, characterized by buds and flowers of contrasting red and yellow color, the buds and flowers resembling Over the Rainbow (miniature -- U.S. Plant Pat. No. 3,472) in size and shape; and further characterized by a plant which is vigorous and compact, easy to propagate from cuttings or by budding, with an abundance of disease resistant small semi-glossy to glossy foliage and an abundance of flowers borne singly or several to the stem in loose clusters.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5109 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.