US Plant Patent PP15405
POULra018
Miniature rose variety ‘POULra018’
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired May 22, 2023. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on April 14, 2023. This patent earned 38 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

The record
- Patent number
- PP15405
- Filed
- April 14, 2003
- Granted
- December 7, 2004
- Expires
- May 22, 2023
- Assignee
- POULSEN ROSER AS
- Inventor
- OLESEN L PERNILLE; OLESEN MOGENS N
Abstract
A new miniature rose 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.
It is claimed: 1. A new and distinct variety of rose 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 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.
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