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US Plant Patent PP16991

Poulcas018

Variety denomination ‘Poulcas018’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired May 12, 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 49 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP16991, the photograph of Poulcas018 printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP16991, 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
PP16991
Filed
March 24, 2005
Granted
August 15, 2006
Expires
May 12, 2025
Assignee
POULSEN ROSER AS
Inventor
OLESEN MOGENS

Abstract

A new garden rose plant of the floribunda class which has abundant, light yellow 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 floribunda rose class named ‘Poulcas018’, illustrated and described herein, due to its abundant, light yellow, fragrant flowers, disease resistance, and extended period of bloom.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP16991 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.