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US Plant Patent PP31127

Cat's Pajamas

Nepeta plant named ‘Cat's Pajamas’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends August 10, 2038.

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 PP31127, the photograph of Cat's Pajamas printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP31127, 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
PP31127
Filed
August 10, 2018
Granted
November 26, 2019
Expires
August 10, 2038
Inventor
HANSEN HANS A

Abstract

The new and distinct hardy perennial plant, Nepeta ‘Cat's Pajamas’, has rounded, short and compact habit with mostly upright to outwardly stems. The foliage is cordate, serrate to crenate. Flowers are a strong violet color with moderate-purple, persistent calyces beginning as much as two weeks prior to other Catmint. The new plant is useful in the landscape en masse, as an accent, or in containers.

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 plant, Nepeta ‘Cat's Pajamas’ essentially as herein described and illustrated.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP31127 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.