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US Plant Patent PP28738

Running With Scissors

Phlox plant named ‘Running With Scissors’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends May 7, 2036.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on January 26, 2036. This patent earned 102 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP28738, the photograph of Running With Scissors printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP28738, 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
PP28738
Filed
January 26, 2016
Granted
December 5, 2017
Expires
May 7, 2036
Assignee
CHICAGOLAND GROWS INC, AULT JAMES ROBERT
Inventor
AULT JAMES ROBERT

Abstract

A new cultivar of Phlox plant named, ‘Running With Scissors’, that is characterized by its a very vigorous, broad spreading plant habit that readily layers into a groundcover, its very large flowers 2.5 cm in diameter and medium violet pink in color and aging to light violet pink with irregular pigments, its flowers that produce a faint, sweet hay fragrance, its light, repeat bloom in autumn in some years, its flowers that cover 90% to 100% of the plant at peak bloom, and its distinctly bifid leaves with a deep cleft 6 mm in depth and width.

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 Phlox plant named ‘Running With Scissors’ as herein illustrated and described.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP28738 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.