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US Plant Patent PP20978

BENocho

Rose plant named ‘BENocho’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends October 3, 2028.

No term adjustment or disclaimer is recorded against this patent, so this is the full statutory term — twenty years from the filing date.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP20978, the photograph of BENocho printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP20978, 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
PP20978
Filed
October 3, 2008
Granted
May 4, 2010
Expires
October 3, 2028
Assignee
NOR EAST MINIATURE ROSES INC
Inventor
BENARDELLA FRANK

Abstract

This new rose plant is of a medium size and upright growing habit. It bears hybrid tea-form, white flowers with red margins, primarily one to a stem. The upper surface of those flowers may become entirely flushed with a deep red depending on the intensity of the sun. The plant makes an excellent decoration in the garden.

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 is claimed, substantially as described and illustrated herein, having white flower petals edged with red, and that can blush entirely red in full sun, in a hybrid tea-form bloom, borne on a vigorous and upright plant.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP20978 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.