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US Plant Patent PP24472

Cat's Meow

Nepeta plant named ‘Cat's Meow’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends March 16, 2033.

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 PP24472, the photograph of Cat's Meow printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP24472, 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
PP24472
Filed
March 16, 2013
Granted
May 20, 2014
Expires
March 16, 2033
Assignee
WALTERS GARDENS INC, HURD KEVIN A
Inventor
HURD KEVIN A

Abstract

The new and distinct hardy perennial Catmint plant, Nepeta ‘Cat's Meow’ has a low growing, short and compact habit with upright and slightly decumbent stems. The foliage is intermediate is size and serrate. The flowers are sky-blue with persistent smoky-purple calyces.

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 hardy perennial Catmint plant, Nepeta ‘Cat's Meow’ essentially as herein described and photographed useful for landscaping as a specimen, en masse, or in a container to bring color and fragrance to a garden and attract butterflies and hummingbirds.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP24472 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.