US Plant Patent PP5850
Rose plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired April 19, 2005. 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
- PP5850
- Filed
- April 19, 1985
- Granted
- January 13, 1987
- Expires
- April 19, 2005
- Inventor
- MCGREDY SAMUEL D
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 orange-gold flower coloring and disease resistant, hardy plant.
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 orange-gold flowers with almost no tendency to fade but with orange red brushing on petal top surface as flowers age borne on an attractive, disease resistant, hardy plant.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5850 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.