US Plant Patent PP16623
WEKfabpur
Shrub rose plant named ‘WEKfabpur’
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired November 29, 2024. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on October 15, 2024. This patent earned 45 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

The record
- Patent number
- PP16623
- Filed
- October 15, 2004
- Granted
- June 6, 2006
- Expires
- November 29, 2024
- Assignee
- WEEKS WHOLESALE ROSE GROWER
- Inventor
- CARRUTH THOMAS F
Abstract
A new variety of Shrub rose suitable for garden decoration, having flowers of velvety black purple coloration with a white eye.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
1. A new and distinct Shrub rose plant of the variety substantially as described and illustrated herein.
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