US Plant Patent PP6350
Hilger
Hilger's Cherry Laurel
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired September 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
- PP6350
- Filed
- September 8, 1986
- Granted
- October 25, 1988
- Expires
- September 8, 2006
- Inventor
- HILGER ROBERT R
Abstract
A new and distinct evergreen cherry laurel about 12 meters high at maturity. The leaves are oblong-lanceolate leathery in appearance and are distinguished by having a rich golden yellow color on green leaves 5 to 10 centimeters long at maturity.
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 plant of cherry laurel named Hilger's Cherry Laurel, as described and illustrated, and particularly characterized as to uniqueness by a distinct variegation of golden yellow in green, oblong-lanceolate, leathery leaves 5 to 10 cm longitudinally at maturity.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6350 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.