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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.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP17376, the photograph of KORgolgat printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP17376, 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
PP17376
Filed
September 23, 2005
Granted
January 23, 2007
Expires
October 3, 2025
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.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP17376 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.