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US Plant Patent PP6492

Rose plant

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired March 16, 2007. 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
PP6492
Filed
March 16, 1987
Granted
December 27, 1988
Expires
March 16, 2007
Inventor
WEDDLE VON C

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 light red, deep pink hybrid tea rose variety.

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 hybrid tea rose class, substantially as shown and described, characterized particularly by large light red, deep pink colored flowers of good exhibition form attractively displayed against shiny dark green foliage and which are long lasting on the plant and as cut flowers.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6492 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.