US Plant Patent PP16697
TAN97544
Hybrid Tea Rose plant named ‘TAN97544’
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired November 1, 2024. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on August 24, 2024. This patent earned 69 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

The record
- Patent number
- PP16697
- Filed
- August 24, 2004
- Granted
- June 20, 2006
- Expires
- November 1, 2024
- Assignee
- ROSEN TANTAU MATHIAS TANTAU NA
- Inventor
- EVERS HANS JUERGEN
Abstract
Hybrid tea rose plant having upright growth, long flower stems and long vase life.
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 by its upright growth, long flower stems and long vase life.
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