US Plant Patent PP6596
Rose plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired July 17, 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
- PP6596
- Filed
- July 17, 1987
- Granted
- February 7, 1989
- Expires
- July 17, 2007
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 and distinct variety of rose plant of the climbing rose class, which was originated by my crossing Tropicana Climber as seed parent and Swarthmore as pollen parent; characterized by bright orange-red hybrid tea blooms with dark velvet overtones on the inner petals of the open flower, produced on a vigorous-growing, disease resistant climbing shrub with everblooming habit and outstanding winter hardiness.
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 its vigorous habit of growth, its good hardiness, its abundant and attractive foliage, its very good remontance, its habit of producing excellent formed blooms singly on long-stemmed canes and in clusters, the strong and appealing fragrance of its blooms, and the general color tonality of the flowers is bright orange-red, with dark velvet overtones on the inner petals of the open flower.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6596 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.