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.

The record
- Patent number
- PP31127
- Filed
- August 10, 2018
- Granted
- November 26, 2019
- Expires
- August 10, 2038
- Assignee
- WALTERS GARDENS INC, HANSEN HANS A
- 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.
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