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US Plant Patent PP12762

POULhilda

Miniature rose variety ‘POULhilda’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired July 20, 2020. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on June 30, 2020. This patent earned 20 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP12762, the photograph of POULhilda printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP12762, 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
PP12762
Filed
June 30, 2000
Granted
July 9, 2002
Expires
July 20, 2020
Inventor
OLESEN L PERNILLE; OLESEN MOGENS N

Abstract

A new miniature rose plant which has abundant, light pink 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.

We claim: 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, light pink flowers, vigorous and compact growth, year round flowering under glasshouse conditions, 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 PP12762 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.