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US Plant Patent PP15680

Jasper Crane

Hybrid tea rose plant name ‘Jasper Crane’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired February 22, 2022. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on January 24, 2022. This patent earned 29 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP15680, the photograph of Jasper Crane printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP15680, 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
PP15680
Filed
January 24, 2002
Granted
March 22, 2005
Expires
February 22, 2022
Inventor
WILLIAMS J BENJAMIN

Abstract

A new and distinct variety of rose plant of the hybrid tea class, characterized by its continuous production of brilliant red well-formed blooms on long straight stems, its vigorous upright habit of growth, its excellent branching, its large open flowers and its intense rose fragrance.

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 hybrid tea class, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized particularly as to novelty by its continuous production of brilliant red well-formed blooms on long straight stems, its viorous upright habit of growth, its excellent branching, its large open flowers, and its intense rose fragrance.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP15680 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.