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US Plant Patent PP16817

BENpico

Miniature Rose plant named ‘BENpico’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired July 8, 2024. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on May 28, 2024. This patent earned 41 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP16817, the photograph of BENpico printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP16817, 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
PP16817
Filed
May 28, 2004
Granted
July 18, 2006
Expires
July 8, 2024
Assignee
NOR EAST MINIATURE ROSES INC
Inventor
BENARDELLA FRANK A

Abstract

‘BENpico’ is a new and distinct variety of miniature rose plant primarily identified by its pure white flowers edged with dark red and its miniature hybrid tea flower form. Blooms are borne singly and in small clusters on long straight stems, good for cutting and ideal for exhibition. When in bloom the plant makes an outstanding, decorative perennial in the ground or in containers. Its semi glossy foliage offers good disease resistance in all areas of the Mainland United States.

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 hardy, miniature rose plant is claimed, substantially as illustrated and described, with hybrid tea form flowers of pure white with a vivid red edging born on long straight stems, dark green semi glossy foliage with good disease resistance and anthocyanin coloring present in young growth.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP16817 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.