Art dedicated to Henry Bosenberg.
January 18, 1883 - July 1962.
In 1930, the United States began granting patents for plants. Henry F. Bosenberg, a landscape gardener, received U.S. Plant Patent no. 1 on August 18, 1931, for a climbing or trailing rose. As a horticulturist, he was always enticed by the natural beauty and fragrance of roses, and developed a method by which they grow along a surface, like a fence or a brick wall. He went to the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and asked the way he could get the intellectual property rights for this new type of flower. At the time, there was no way available. The USPTO went into action and the US government set up a new patent classification system: the plant patent. The implementation of this type of patent gave botanists the ability to develop new plant hybrids and sell them without worrying about unfair competition.
