US Plant Patent PP14092
Ausquest
Shrub rose plant named ‘Ausquest’
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired December 20, 2021. 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.

The record
- Patent number
- PP14092
- Filed
- December 20, 2001
- Granted
- August 26, 2003
- Expires
- December 20, 2021
- Assignee
- DAVID AUSTIN ROSES LTD
- Inventor
- AUSTIN DAVID C H
Abstract
Shrub rose plant having a robust and very branching growth habit; large, rosette-shaped flowers, cupped at first, peals reflexing later having a soft apricot color, paling to pale cream on outer petals; and freely produced flowers at the ends of slightly arching stems.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. New and distinct variety of rose plant of the shrub class, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized particularly by its robust and very branching growth habit; large, rosette-shaped flowers, cupped at first, petals reflexing later, having a soft apricot color, paling to pale cream on outer petals; and freely produced flowers at the ends of slightly arching stems.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP14092 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.