US Plant Patent PP17686
WEKsunvoye
Hybrid Tea rose plant named ‘WEKsunvoye’
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired November 17, 2025. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
No term adjustment or disclaimer is recorded against this patent, so this is the full statutory term — twenty years from the filing date.

The record
- Patent number
- PP17686
- Filed
- November 17, 2005
- Granted
- May 1, 2007
- Expires
- November 17, 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 blended apricot gold with an irregular yellow-colored fan-shaped pattern of venation on the under surface of the petals.
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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