US Plant Patent PP11332
Monry
Berberis thunbergii plant named `Monry`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired February 26, 2018. 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
- PP11332
- Filed
- February 26, 1998
- Granted
- April 4, 2000
- Expires
- February 26, 2018
- Assignee
- MONROVIA NURSERY CO
- Inventor
- EILERS HENRY
Abstract
A new and distinct selection of Golden Barberry shrub which shall be referred to hereinafter as Berberis thunbergii `Monry`. Berberis thunbergii `Monry` differs distinctively from other Berberis thunbergii plants by its unique combination of early flower clusters and yellowish foliage produced along terminal branch tips and an upright vase-shaped shrub habit with brilliant yellow mature foliage that tolerates full sun without burning.
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 variety of Berberis plant as substantially shown and described herein that is characterized particularly as a novelty by the unique combination of early flower clusters and yellowish foliage produced along terminal branch tips and an upright vase-shaped shrub habit with brilliant yellow mature foliage that tolerates full sun without burning.
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