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US Plant Patent PP16077

POULra016

Miniature rose plant ‘POULra016’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired June 28, 2023. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on September 27, 2022. This patent earned 274 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP16077, the photograph of POULra016 printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP16077, 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
PP16077
Filed
September 27, 2002
Granted
November 1, 2005
Expires
June 28, 2023
Assignee
POULSEN ROSER AS
Inventor
OLESEN L PERNILLE; OLESEN MOGENS

Abstract

A new miniature rose plant which has abundant, red flowers and attractive foliage. The variety successfully propagates from softwood cuttings and is suitable for year round production in commercial glasshouses. 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, red flowers, vigorous growth, compact habit, 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 PP16077 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.