US Plant Patent PP5481
Rose plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired October 11, 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
- PP5481
- Filed
- October 11, 1983
- Granted
- May 28, 1985
- Expires
- October 11, 2003
- Inventor
- WEEKS O L
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 present invention relates to a new and distinct variety of rose plant of the hybrid tea rose class, which was originated by my crossing as seed parent the rose known as "Mr. Lincoln" (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 2,370) and as pollen parent, my seedling of ("Suspense"×"King's Ransom"). The denomination of this new rose is "Big Apple".
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 rose class, substantially as shown and described, characterized particularly by large, well petaled cardinal red flowers borne one to a stem on a vigorous plant.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5481 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.