US Plant Patent PP18840
KORpolare
Miniature rose plant named ‘KORpolare’
UNDER PATENT
Still under patent. Protection ends February 10, 2027.
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
- PP18840
- Filed
- February 10, 2007
- Granted
- May 27, 2008
- Expires
- February 10, 2027
- Assignee
- KORDES SOEHNE ROSENSCHULEN
- Inventor
- KORDES TIM-HERMANN
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of miniature rose with long lasting, novel red flowers, and abundant 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 long lasting red flowers; (b) exhibits a compact and bushy growth habit; (c) is suited for growing in greenhouse 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.
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