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US Plant Patent PP5916

Rose plant

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired September 13, 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
PP5916
Filed
September 13, 1985
Granted
March 31, 1987
Expires
September 13, 2005
Inventor
ILSINK G PETER

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 climber rose variety having vigorous climbing plant, blooming in large clusters on terminals and from laterals, throughout the growing season, of generally lavender color.

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 climber class, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized particularly as to novelty by the unique combination of vigorous climbing plant, blooming in large clusters on terminals and from laterals, throughout the growing season, of generally lavender color.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5916 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.