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US Plant Patent PP18179

JENeight

Miniature rose plant ‘JENeight’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired October 18, 2025. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on July 1, 2025. This patent earned 109 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP18179, the photograph of JENeight printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP18179, 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
PP18179
Filed
July 1, 2005
Granted
November 6, 2007
Expires
October 18, 2025
Assignee
JENSEN SVEND
Inventor
JENSEN SVEND

Abstract

A new miniature rose plant which has abundant, long lasting, white colored flowers and attractive foliage. The variety successfully propagates from softwood cuttings and is suitable for year round production in commercial glass houses as a flowering pot plant. This new and distinct variety has shown to be uniform and stable in the resulting generations from asexual propagation.

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 miniature class, substantially as herein illustrated and described as a distinct and novel rose variety due to its abundant, long lasting, white color flowers, attractive long lasting matte foliage, vigorous and compact growth, year round flowering under glasshouse conditions, suitability for production from softwood cuttings in pots, and durable flowers and foliage which make the variety suitable for distribution in the floral industry.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP18179 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.