Skip to content
The Patent Garden

US Plant Patent PP15716

KORcarill

Miniature rose plant named ‘KORcarill’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired December 15, 2023. 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.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP15716, the photograph of KORcarill printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP15716, 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
PP15716
Filed
December 15, 2003
Granted
April 12, 2005
Expires
December 15, 2023
Assignee
KORDES SÖHNE ROSENSCHULEN GMBH & CO KG W
Inventor
KORDES TIM-HERMANN

Abstract

A new and distinct variety of miniature rose with long lasting, novel pink flowers, and dark green and attractive foliage. It exhibits compact, uniform growth and flowering under greenhouse conditions when grown as a potted floral plant. The new variety propagates well from cuttings and by grafting. 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 miniature rose plant characterized by the following combination of characteristics: (a) forms abundant, attractive pink long lasting flowers; (b) exhibits a compact and bushy growth habit; (c) is suited for greenhouse culture in pots from softwood cuttings; and; (d) exhibits durable flowers and foliage suitable for distribution in the floral industry; substantially as herein illustrated and described.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP15716 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.