US Plant Patent PP6962
Chamzin
Ilex glabra named `Chamzin`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired August 1, 2006. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on September 9, 2008, but this patent ends 770 days earlier — a terminal disclaimer gives term back. A source that calculates twenty years from filing would tell you this plant is still protected when it is already free.
The record
- Patent number
- PP6962
- Filed
- September 9, 1988
- Granted
- August 1, 1989
- Expires
- August 1, 2006
Abstract
The present invention relates to a new and distinct variety of inkberry, which was discovered by me as a sport in a block of Ilex on my cultivated property, at Perry, Ohio. More particularly, the present invention relates to a novel variety of glabra compacta, Ilex, having unusual and distinctive characteristics, now available as Nordic, a trademarked plant of Lake County Nursery Exchange, Inc.
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 cultivar of Ilex glabra plant, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized particularly by a more spreading than upright growth and which is more compact at the center and base to provide a well branched and more rounded habit, the plant has a more vigorous growth and matures at about one-half the species size under such growing conditions, and having leaves which are of a dark-glossy-green color above and of a light dull-green color below, and with the top surface of the leaves having a substantially greater lustrous green color that glistens in natural sunlight.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6962 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.