US Plant Patent PP6142
Lady Liberty
White tea rose named Lady Liberty
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired March 26, 2006. 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
- PP6142
- Filed
- March 26, 1986
- Granted
- April 5, 1988
- Expires
- March 26, 2006
- Assignee
- JOSEPH H HILL COMPANY
- Inventor
- DEVOR THOMAS R
Abstract
A white tea rose cultivar intended for greenhouse culture and cut flower production, the new plant being distinguished by its continuous and profuse production of large, clear white flowers borne on long, strong and sturdy stems and having a very excellent vase life. In greenhouse culture, this plant has a free branching, upright and vigorous growth habit with an abundant production of foliage of medium size.
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 rose cultivar, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized by its profuse and continuous production of large flowers having clear white color throughout the body of each petal with the exception of a small amount of light yellow color at each petal base.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6142 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.