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US Plant Patent PP15506

POULra21

Miniature rose variety ‘POULra21’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired April 12, 2023. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on January 3, 2023. This patent earned 99 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP15506, the photograph of POULra21 printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP15506, 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
PP15506
Filed
January 3, 2003
Granted
February 1, 2005
Expires
April 12, 2023
Assignee
POULSEN ROSER AS
Inventor
OLESEN L PERNILLE; OLESEN MOGENS N

Abstract

A new miniature rose plant which has abundant, 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.

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, 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.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP15506 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.