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US Plant Patent PP13315

AUSverse

Shrub rose plant named ‘AUSverse’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired December 5, 2020. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on November 13, 2020. This patent earned 22 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP13315, the photograph of AUSverse printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP13315, 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
PP13315
Filed
November 13, 2000
Granted
December 3, 2002
Expires
December 5, 2020
Assignee
DAVID AUSTIN ROSES LTD
Inventor
AUSTIN DAVID C H

Abstract

Shrub rose plant that is disease resistant, having rich, dark crimson blooms that turn to a shade of rich purple and have a powerful, old rose fragrance that repeat flowers throughout the summer and has a strong, bushy, rather upright growth.

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 rosa hybrida class, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized particularly by its rich, dark crimson blooms that turn to a shade of rich purple, with a powerful, old rose fragrance; strong, bushy rather upright growth; repeat flowering; and very good disease resistance.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP13315 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.