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US Plant Patent PP31756

Peter Cottontail

Achillea plant named ‘Peter Cottontail’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends January 14, 2039.

No term adjustment or disclaimer is recorded against this patent, so this is the full statutory term — twenty years from the filing date.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP31756, the photograph of Peter Cottontail printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP31756, reproduced as printed. Photographs in a plant patent are taken by the applicant. Reproduction of the patent document is permitted; the image is shown whole and uncropped for that reason.

The record

Patent number
PP31756
Filed
January 14, 2019
Granted
May 12, 2020
Expires
January 14, 2039
Inventor
HANSEN HANS A

Abstract

The new and distinct Yarrow plant named Achillea ‘Peter Cottontail’, dense mounded habit, of upright heavily branched stems of medium height; linear, serrate, slightly-glossy, deep-green leaves; heavy flowering of white, predominately sterile flowers in large heads averaging over 100 florets per head beginning in mid-June and continuing for nearly seven weeks. The new plant is useful as a specimen landscape plant, mass planting or cut flower in arrangements.

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

I claim: 1. The new and distinct cultivar of Yarrow plant named Achillea ‘Peter Cottontail’ as herein described and illustrated.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP31756 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.