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US Plant Patent PP25937

Blue Bayou

Cortaderia plant named ‘Blue Bayou’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends April 15, 2034.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on October 28, 2033. This patent earned 169 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP25937, the photograph of Blue Bayou printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP25937, 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
PP25937
Filed
October 28, 2013
Granted
September 22, 2015
Expires
April 15, 2034
Assignee
ITSAUL PLANTS LLC, SAUL ROBERT MARK
Inventor
SAUL ROBERT MARK

Abstract

A new cultivar of Cortaderia selloana named ‘Blue Bayou’, that is characterized by its narrow foliage that is tinted blue in color, its average foliar height of 1.2 m, average foliar width of 1.5 m, and average bloom height of 2 m, its multiple blooms in the first spring of growth from culm divisions made in the fall or winter or from tissue cultured plants planted in fall, and its clean foliage with no disease or leaf spot observed and its flowers that are white to creamy white in color.

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 cultivar of Cortaderia plant named ‘Blue Bayou’ as herein illustrated and described.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP25937 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.