US Plant Patent PP19900
KORtifhar
Rose plant named ‘KORtifhar’
UNDER PATENT
Still under patent. Protection ends August 28, 2027.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on August 15, 2026. This patent earned 378 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

The record
- Patent number
- PP19900
- Filed
- August 15, 2006
- Granted
- April 14, 2009
- Expires
- August 28, 2027
- Assignee
- KORDES SOEHNE ROSENSCHULEN
- Inventor
- KORDES TIM-HERMANN
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of rose with long lasting, novel apricot colored flowers, and attractive foliage with good disease resistance. It exhibits uniform upright bushy growth habit with abundant flowers. The new variety propagates well using traditional methods. This new and distinct variety has shown to be uniform and stable in the resulting generations from asexual propagation.
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1. A new and distinct variety of rose plant characterized by the following combination of characteristics: (a) forms attractive, long lasting apricot colored flowers; (b) exhibits uniform upright bushy growth habit; (c) propagates well using traditional methods, and, (d) exhibits very good resistance to disease under normal growing conditions; substantially as herein illustrated and described.
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