Hadcup

Hadcup

Floribunda Rose plant named ‘Hadcup’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired May 30, 2024. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on November 4, 2023. This patent earned 208 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP16014, the photograph of Hadcup printed in the patent.

Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP16014, 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.

Abstract

A new and distinct rose cultivar of the Floribunda class characterized by having long lasting clusters of deep yellow flowers on clean stems without prickles and having a rapid rebloom cycle. The plant is upright and bushy and is of medium height, generally averaging about 1 meter. Stems are well covered with matte foliage. The plant is resistant to mildew, rust and blackspot.

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

1. A new and distinct rose cultivar of the Floribunda class, characterized in particular by prickles being absent from any stems, deep butter yellow colored flowers borne in clusters of up to 14 flowers, and rapid rebloom cycle, substantially as herein shown and described.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP16014 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.

The record

Abstract