US Plant Patent PP5691
Rose plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired September 24, 2004. 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
- PP5691
- Filed
- September 24, 1984
- Granted
- March 18, 1986
- Expires
- September 24, 2004
- 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 spinel 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 unusual spinel red flowers which are a combination of spinel red tones and are displayed against glossy green foliage.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5691 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.