US Plant Patent PP29578
PIIIC-I
Ilex plant named ‘PIIIC-I’
UNDER PATENT
Still under patent. Protection ends February 6, 2037.
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
- PP29578
- Filed
- February 6, 2017
- Granted
- August 7, 2018
- Expires
- February 6, 2037
- Assignee
- BAILEY NURSERIES INC
- Inventor
- DIRR MICHAEL A; HELVICK RHONDA; MCBEE OREN; GRIFFITH MARK; BEASLEY JEFF
Abstract
A new cultivar of Ilex crenata plant named, ‘PIIIC-I’, that is characterized by its upright, fastigiate plant habit, its dense, freely branching growth habit, its slightly recurved leaves that are glossy in texture and dark green in color, branches that do not splay or spread apart with age and its lack of fruit production (male flowers).
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
It is claimed: 1. A new and distinct cultivar of Ilex plant named ‘PIIIC-I’ as herein illustrated and described.
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