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US Plant Patent PP17546

Koramasti

Floribunda rose plant named: ‘Koramasti’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired June 29, 2025. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on May 20, 2025. This patent earned 40 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP17546, the photograph of Koramasti printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP17546, 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
PP17546
Filed
May 20, 2005
Granted
April 3, 2007
Expires
June 29, 2025
Inventor
KORDES TIM-HERMANN

Abstract

A new and distinct variety of Floribunda rose plant which has attractive red colored flowers and attractive green and glossy foliage. The buds are pointed and well turbinated. This new variety is having high production of long stems with a long vase life, vigorous, upright growth, and good tolerance to powdery mildew. The variety successfully propagates from softwood cuttings and is well suitable for year round production of cut flowers in commercial glass houses as a flowering cut rose. This 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 of the Floribunda class, substantially as herein illustrated and described as a distinct and novel rose variety due to its abundant red colored flowers, attractive long lasting foliage, vigorous and upright growth, year round flowering under glasshouse conditions, suitability for production from softwood cuttings, and durable flowers and foliage which make the variety suitable for distribution in the floral industry.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP17546 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.