This seedling seems not to mind a little neglect and extreme heat. The aphids have NOT taken a single bite. All my other roses have had a rough season, but this one keeps calm and carries on. Also, it grew from a two-years-ago batch of seeds. I like the slightly blue-green foliage.
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I loooove the foliage
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A seedling from a trademark.? Keep doing this because it shows that the trademarks are generically used and invalid
I think that you’ll find the preferential use of trade designations when referring to plants to be almost universal practice in informal plant and garden interest communication. However, good luck getting anything in the system to change without extraordinarily deep pockets. If you are looking to start something and you have/are a willing law firm, I would say that websites selling the plants under their trade designations but without even listing the cultivar epithets might be even more fertile ground.
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The trademark simply stated you can’t use the trademarked name for the rose without paying the trademark owner royalties for the privilege. It means nothing concerning breeding. It means nothing concerning whether you can or can’t propagate the trademarked rose and sell the daylights out of it. It simply means that whatever you do, you can’t CALL it the trademarked name without paying for the privilege.
You would need a utility patent to prevent the use of the variety in breeding.
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Welcome, Jeff! Thanks for clarifying it all, MidAtlas & Roseseek, you’ve always steered me right.
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