US Plant Patent PP4172
volare
Rose plant--volare variety
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired December 27, 1994. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on January 14, 1997, but this patent ends 749 days earlier — a terminal disclaimer gives term back. A source that calculates twenty years from filing would tell you this plant is still protected when it is already free.
The record
- Patent number
- PP4172
- Filed
- January 14, 1977
- Granted
- December 27, 1977
- Expires
- December 27, 1994
- Assignee
- CARLTON ROSE NURSERIES INC
- Inventor
- MCDANIEL GAYLE KENT
Abstract
A rose plant of the Hybrid Tea Class obtained as a seedling from unnamed seed parent No. 2573-V-69 and unnamed pollen parent No. 44-E-66. The rose plant of the new and distinct variety freely yields long lasting small to medium blooms borne on medium length stems on a continuous basis in a greenhouse.
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 Class obtained as a seedling from unnamed seed parent No. 2573-V-69 and unnamed pollen parent No. 44-E-66 characterized by its ability to yield small to medium-sized long lasting blooms on a continuous basis in a greenhouse substantially as shown and described.
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