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US Plant Patent PP5728

Rose plant

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired October 18, 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
PP5728
Filed
October 18, 1984
Granted
April 29, 1986
Expires
October 18, 2004
Inventor
JOLLY NELSON F

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 the light red, deep pink coloring class of good form and substance.

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 well formed, heavily petalled flowers of light Neyron rose coloring having deeper-toned flower centers where petals remain bunched until opening and with petals reflexing and rolling under upon opening while retaining good form.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5728 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.