US Plant Patent PP8215
Golden pygmy barberry plant named Bogozam
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired September 26, 2011. 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
- PP8215
- Filed
- September 26, 1991
- Granted
- April 27, 1993
- Expires
- September 26, 2011
No cultivar name of record
This patent does not name the plant. Through the 1980s and early 1990s that was still common: naming every new cultivar only became standard practice as plants began to be marketed under brand names. The grant identifies this one by its number and by a written description instead.
Nothing here is missing from our records: the patent itself states no name. Where one exists we show it, and we do not invent one.
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of golden pygmy barberry plant named Bogozam is provided. The new variety can be readily distinguished from its parents, Berberis thunbergii `Atropurpurea Nana` and Berberis thunbergii `Aurea` (both nonpatented in the United States). For instance, the new variety forms a dwarf, compact, broad low-mounding plant; generally forms mature leaves of a brighter and more intense golden coloration; generally forms new growth having a brighter and more intense red coloration; generally exhibits a rapid growth rate between internodes of a relatively short length and a dense growth habit; and is more tolerant to sun scald. The new variety is particularly well suited for growing as attractive ornamentation in the landscape.
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 golden pygmy barberry plant which exhibits the following combination of characteristics: (a) exhibits a dwarf, generally compact, broad, and low-mounding growth habit, (b) forms mature leaves of a brighter and more intense goldlen coloration than its parent Berberis thunbergii `Aurea`, (c) forms new growth having a brighter and more intense red coloration than its parent Berberis thunbergii `Aurea`, (d) exhibits a rapid growth rate between internodes of a relatively short length, and (e) generally is more tolerant to sun scald than its parent Berberis thunbergii `Aurea`; substantially as herein shown and described.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP8215 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.