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US Plant Patent PP17709

AUSbrother

Shrub rose plant named ‘AUSbrother’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired October 13, 2025. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

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 PP17709, the photograph of AUSbrother printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP17709, 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
PP17709
Filed
October 13, 2005
Granted
May 8, 2007
Expires
October 13, 2025
Assignee
DAVID AUSTIN ROSES LTD
Inventor
AUSTIN DAVID C H

Abstract

Shrub rose plant characterized particularly by its deeply cupped blooms, tangerine-orange on inner side and yellow-orange on the reverse; very strong and complex fruity fragrance; and bronzy-green young foliage becoming dark green on upright, bushy growth.

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 shrub class, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized particularly by its deeply cupped blooms, tangerine-orange on inner side and yellow-orange on the reverse; very strong and complex fruity fragrance; and bronzy-green young foliage becoming dark green on upright, bushy growth.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP17709 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.