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US Plant Patent PP5483

Rose plant

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired November 30, 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
PP5483
Filed
November 30, 1983
Granted
June 4, 1985
Expires
November 30, 2003
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 miniature rose variety of bright orange red coloring.

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 capsicum red buds which open quickly into bright orange red flowers with irregular yellow flower centers in the fully open stage.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5483 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.