US Plant Patent PP5692
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
- PP5692
- 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 bright red flower coloring and of exhibition form.
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 flowers of exhibition form and medium to heavy petalage with outer petals reflexing sharply upon opening and good color stability.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5692 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.