US Plant Patent PP5425
Rose plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired June 20, 2003. 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
- PP5425
- Filed
- June 20, 1983
- Granted
- April 2, 1985
- Expires
- June 20, 2003
- Assignee
- NEIMAN MARCUS COMPANY
- Inventor
- RODGERS SHAFNER R
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 hybrid tea rose variety of generally pink blend which lightens upon aging.
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 particularly by a very vigorous plant with abundant, glossy, dark green foliage producing many large, cup-shaped pink blend flowers one to a stem on substantial stems.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5425 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.