US Plant Patent PP16921

Admiration

Berberis plant named ‘Admiration’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired April 25, 2025. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on February 7, 2025. This patent earned 77 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

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The record

Patent number: PP16921
Filed: February 7, 2005
Granted: August 1, 2006
Expires: April 25, 2025
Assignee: ANDRUSIV MICHAL
Inventor: ANDRUSIV MICHAL

Abstract

A new cultivar of Berberis plant named ‘Admiration’ that is characterized by broad upright habit, orange-red foliage with yellow margins, and absence of flowers. In combination these traits set ‘Admiration’ apart from all other existing varieties of Berberis known to the inventor.

Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.

1. A new and distinct cultivar of Berberis plant named ‘Admiration’, as described and illustrated herein.

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