US Plant Patent PP16941
Poulcot005
Shrub rose plant named ‘Poulcot005’
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired May 5, 2025. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on March 24, 2025. This patent earned 42 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

The record
- Patent number
- PP16941
- Filed
- March 24, 2005
- Granted
- August 8, 2006
- Expires
- May 5, 2025
- Assignee
- POULSEN ROSER AS
- Inventor
- OLESEN MOGENS
Abstract
A new garden rose plant of the shrub rose class which has abundant, pink, single petal flowers and attractive foliage. This new and distinct variety has shown to be uniform and stable in the resulting generations from asexual propagation.
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 rose class named ‘Poulcot005’, illustrated and described herein, due to its abundant pink, single petal flowers, compact growth habit, disease resistance, and extended period of bloom.
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