US Plant Patent PP34616
Trotou
Ajuga plant named ‘Trotou’
UNDER PATENT
Still under patent. Protection ends March 4, 2042.
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
- PP34616
- Filed
- March 4, 2022
- Granted
- September 27, 2022
- Expires
- March 4, 2042
- Assignee
- ELSWORTH KELLY
- Inventor
- ELSWORTH KELLY
Abstract
A new cultivar of Ajuga plant named ‘Trotou’ that is characterized by its foliage that is vibrant gold color with central mid-veins that are bright pink in color, its young stolon stems that are pink in color, its peduncle leaves that are purple in color at the tip of the flowering stems, and its high resistance to sun scorch and thrives in full sun in the summer in Michigan.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
It is claimed: 1. A new and distinct variety of Ajuga plant named ‘Trotou’ as described and illustrated herein.
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