US Plant Patent PP5143
Ilex aquifolium selection
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired March 9, 2002. 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
- PP5143
- Filed
- March 9, 1982
- Granted
- November 22, 1983
- Expires
- March 9, 2002
- Assignee
- MONROVIA NURSERY CO
- Inventor
- AVILA ROSENDO
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
This invention relates to a new and distinct selection of Ilex aquifolium shrub (popularly known as English holly) a member of the Aquifoliaceae family referred to as Ilex aquifolium `Monvila`. A sport selection characterized from the plant it was discovered on by its variegated leaf with yellow margins. Our selection differs from Ilex aquifolium `Argenteo-marginata`, a plant with similar foliage color pattern by our new selection having (1) a more compact growth habit; (2) smaller leaves with less numbers of spines and (3) producing strictly male flowers.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. Ilex aquifolium `Monvila` is a new and distinct selection as substantially shown and described herein, a superior selection characterized by a combination of notable characteristics of variegated foliage, compact habit, small foliage and having strictly male flowers.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5143 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.