US Plant Patent PP13299
Ausrace
Shrub rose plant named ‘Ausrace’
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired August 30, 2020. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on August 17, 2020. This patent earned 13 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

The record
- Patent number
- PP13299
- Filed
- August 17, 2000
- Granted
- December 3, 2002
- Expires
- August 30, 2020
- Assignee
- DAVID AUSTIN ROSES LTD
- Inventor
- AUSTIN DAVID C H
Abstract
Shrub rose plant having perfectly rounded, full petaled, fresh tea-scented flowers of a soft creamy yellow that fades to ivory; an attractive, busy growth habit; and high disease resistance.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. A new and distinct variety of rose plant of the shrub class, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized particularly by perfectly rounded, full petaled, fresh tea-scented flowers of a soft creamy yellow that fades to ivory; an attractive, busy growth habit; and high disease resistance.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP13299 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.