US Plant Patent PP16884

Magic Marlot

Skimmia plant named ‘Magic Marlot’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired December 6, 2024. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on October 26, 2024. This patent earned 41 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

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The record

Patent number: PP16884
Filed: October 26, 2004
Granted: July 25, 2006
Expires: December 6, 2024
Assignee: KOOT JIM
Inventor: KOOT JIM

Abstract

A new cultivar of Skimmia plant named ‘Magic Marlot’ that is characterized by variegated foliage with young leaves that have yellow margins, mature leaves that have cream colored margins and flower buds that start as cream colored during the summer changing to bronze in autumn and to dark pinkish red in the winter.

Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.

1. A new and distinct variety of Skimmia plant named ‘Magic Marlot’ as described and illustrated.

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