US Plant Patent PP5117
Rose plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired January 29, 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
- PP5117
- Filed
- January 29, 1982
- Granted
- October 11, 1983
- Expires
- January 29, 2002
- Assignee
- SEQUOIA NURSERY
- 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 variegated (striped) buds and flowers of pink and white.
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 variegated or striped (in differing degrees and patterns) with pink and white, the bud being pointed in the early opening stage, resembling in form Beauty Secret (miniature -- not patented), with the open flower being rounded and full with many (35 or more) petals; and further characterized by a plant of compact, vigorous, well rounded shape; with main stems and shoots of less than average thorniness, the said plant being easy to propagate from softwood cuttings, with an abundance of small semi-glossy to matt foliage, the flowers being born singly or several to the stem in clusters.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5117 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.