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US Plant Patent PP16268

KORnilsca

Miniature rose plant named ‘KORnilsca’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired February 13, 2024. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on December 15, 2023. This patent earned 60 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP16268, the photograph of KORnilsca printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP16268, 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
PP16268
Filed
December 15, 2003
Granted
February 21, 2006
Expires
February 13, 2024
Assignee
KORDES SOEHNE ROSENSCHNLEN GMB
Inventor
KORDES TIM-HERMANN

Abstract

A new and distinct variety of miniature rose with abundant, pink flowers and dark green and attractive foliage. The new variety propagates well from cuttings and by grafting. It exhibits uniform growth and flowering under less than ideal environmental conditions in greenhouse, nursery, and garden culture. 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 growing in greenhouse in pots from softwood cutting, 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 PP16268 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.