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US Plant Patent PP20890

Dixie Chip

Ajuga plant named ‘Dixie Chip’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends October 29, 2028.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on October 23, 2028. This patent earned 6 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP20890, the photograph of Dixie Chip printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP20890, 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
PP20890
Filed
October 23, 2008
Granted
March 30, 2010
Expires
October 29, 2028
Assignee
ITSAUL PLANTS LLC
Inventor
SAUL RICHARD G

Abstract

A new cultivar of Ajuga plant, ‘Dixie Chip’, characterized by its variegated foliage that is tri-colored with mottling and blending of white, pink, and green with green veins and maturing to white with green veins with new growth that is heavily flushed with pink, its light blue flowers with non-variegated green floral leaves on racemes that are present for 4 to 6 weeks in spring, and its tight plant habit that slowly spreads by stolons with suitability as a groundcover.

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 Ajuga plant named ‘Dixie Chip’ as described and illustrated herein.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP20890 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.