US Plant Patent PP14233
Gold Mine
Inkberry plant named ‘Gold Mine’
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired October 11, 2022. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on October 8, 2022. This patent earned 3 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.
The record
- Patent number
- PP14233
- Filed
- October 8, 2002
- Granted
- October 14, 2003
- Expires
- October 11, 2022
- Assignee
- CP DELAWARE INC
- Inventor
- CESARINI GABRIEL
Abstract
A new variety of Ilex glabra plant is provided that is well suited for growing as attractive ornamentation in the landscape. The new variety is believed to be a spontaneous mutation of the ‘Shamrock’ variety (non-patented in the United States) of unknown causation. The foliage of the new variety is particularly distinctive and when exposed to full sun is dark glossy green with irregular bright golden yellow variegation at the margin. The growth habit is slow to moderate and the plant assumes a smaller overall size than the ‘Shamrock’ variety. Dioecious female flowers are formed. Good hardiness is displayed in U.S.D.A. Hardiness Zone No. 6a.
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 Ilex glabra plant that displays the following combination of characteristics: (a) when exposed to full sun the foliage is dark glossy green with irregular bright golden yellow variegation at the margin, (b) exhibits a slow to moderate growth habit, (c) forms dioecious female flowers, (d) assumes a smaller overall size than the parent ‘Shamrock’ variety (non-patented in the United States), and (e) displays good hardiness in U.S.D.A. Hardiness Zone No. 6a; substantially as illustrated and described.
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