US Plant Patent PP16139
RUIMZ15
Hybrid tea rose plant named ‘RUIMZ15’
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired June 24, 2023. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on January 13, 2023. This patent earned 162 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

The record
- Patent number
- PP16139
- Filed
- January 13, 2003
- Granted
- December 6, 2005
- Expires
- June 24, 2023
- Assignee
- RUITER S NIEUWE ROZEN BV
- Inventor
- DE GROOT HENK
Abstract
A new and distinct hybrid tea rose plant having attractive large cream flowers.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
1. A new and distinct hybrid tea rose plant having attractive large cream flowers.
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