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US Plant Patent PP18952

KORcentex

Climbing rose plant named ‘KORcentex’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired July 21, 2026. 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.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP18952, the photograph of KORcentex printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP18952, reproduced as printed. Photographs in a plant patent are taken by the applicant. Reproduction of the patent document is permitted; the image is shown whole and uncropped for that reason.

The record

Patent number
PP18952
Filed
July 21, 2006
Granted
June 17, 2008
Expires
July 21, 2026
Assignee
KORDES SOEHNE ROSENSCHULEN
Inventor
KORDES TIM-HERMANN

Abstract

A new and distinct variety of rose with long lasting, novel pink flowers, and attractive foliage with good disease resistance. It exhibits uniform climbing growth with abundant flowers. The new variety propagates well from cuttings and by grafting. This new and distinct variety has shown to be uniform and stable in the resulting generations from asexual propagation.

Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.

1. A new and distinct variety of climbing rose plant characterized by the following combination of characteristics: (a) forms attractive, long lasting pink flowers; (b) exhibits climbing growth habit; (c) propagates well using traditional methods, and; (d) exhibits very good resistance to disease under normal growing conditions; substantially as herein illustrated and described.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP18952 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.