US Plant Patent PP16614

WEKhilpurnil

Hybrid Tea Rose plant named ‘WEKhilpurnil’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired February 21, 2025. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on November 11, 2024. This patent earned 102 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

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The record

Patent number: PP16614
Filed: November 11, 2004
Granted: June 6, 2006
Expires: February 21, 2025
Assignee: WEEKS WHOLESALE ROSE GROWER
Inventor: CARRUTH THOMAS F

Abstract

A new variety of Hybrid Tea rose suitable for garden decoration, having flowers of lavender blushed purple coloration.

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 of the variety substantially as described and illustrated herein.

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