US Plant Patent PP5484
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
- PP5484
- Filed
- November 30, 1983
- Granted
- June 4, 1985
- Expires
- November 30, 2003
- Assignee
- NOR EAST MINIATURE ROSES INC
- 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 red coloring with Naples yellow colored flower centers which are long lasting on the plant and as a cut flower.
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 bright red buds which upon opening reveal bicolored petals of red and Naples yellow toward point of petal attachment and display yellow centers amid red colored petals at full open bloom, flowers are very long lasting on the plant and after cutting.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5484 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.