US Plant Patent PP6269
Crimson Velvet
Barberry plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired August 8, 2006. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
No term adjustment or disclaimer is recorded against this patent, so this is the full statutory term — twenty years from the filing date.
The record
- Patent number
- PP6269
- Filed
- August 8, 1986
- Granted
- September 6, 1988
- Expires
- August 8, 2006
- Assignee
- NEW PLANTS
- Inventor
- DE WIT AART
Abstract
The present invention relates to a new and distinct variety of barberry, which was discovered by me as a sport in a block of Berberis on my cultivated property at Grand Rapids, Mich. More particularly, the present invention relates to a novel cultivar of Berberis thunbergii atropurpurea having unusual and distinctive foliage coloration, known as "Crimson Velvet", a plant of New Plants.
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 cultivar of Berberis thunbergii, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized particularly by leaves which are of a smokey maroon color with lighter maroon veins and immature leaves which are of a light maroon color.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6269 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.