US Plant Patent PP16498
Jactourn
Grandiflora rose plant named ‘Jactourn’
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired December 12, 2024. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on October 19, 2024. This patent earned 54 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

The record
- Patent number
- PP16498
- Filed
- October 19, 2004
- Granted
- May 2, 2006
- Expires
- December 12, 2024
- Assignee
- JACKSON & PERKINS WHOLESALE
- Inventor
- ZARY KEITH W
Abstract
Grandiflora rose plant having large, well-formed flowers of dark red, non-fading flower color; large, glossy foliage; resistance to powdery mildew and rust; and ease of propagation by softwood cuttings.
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 grandiflora class, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized particularly by its large, well-formed flowers of dark red, non-fading flower color; large, glossy foliage; resistance to powdery mildew and rust; and ease of propagation by softwood cuttings.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP16498 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.