US Plant Patent PP17376
KORgolgat
Climbing rose plant named ‘KORgolgat’
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired October 3, 2025. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on September 23, 2025. This patent earned 10 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

The record
- Patent number
- PP17376
- Filed
- September 23, 2005
- Granted
- January 23, 2007
- Expires
- October 3, 2025
- Assignee
- KORDES SOEHNE ROSERLACHCHULEN
- Inventor
- KORDES TIM-HERMANN
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of rose with long lasting, novel golden yellow flowers, and attractive foliage with good disease resistance. It exhibits uniform, upright to 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 rose plant characterized by the following combination of characteristics: (a) forms attractive, long lasting golden yellow flowers; (b) exhibits uniform upright to 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.
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