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US Plant Patent PP6520

Prnus serrulata (Royal Burgundy)

Prnus serrulata (Royal Burgundy)

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired December 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
PP6520
Filed
December 8, 1986
Granted
January 10, 1989
Expires
December 8, 2006

Abstract

A new variety of Prunus serrulata having distinctive purplish red leaf color with the blossoms being a darker purplish red than the known varieties of the Prunus serrulata species. The branches, stems and calyxes are reddish.

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 variety of Prunus serrulata as described and illustrated, distinguished from the species and other known varieties by the purplish red color of its leaves, the red branches, the purplish red stem and caps and the purplish Red blossoms.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6520 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.