US Plant Patent PP29498
Midnight Model
Salvia plant named ‘Midnight Model’
UNDER PATENT
Still under patent. Protection ends July 31, 2037.
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
- PP29498
- Filed
- July 31, 2017
- Granted
- July 10, 2018
- Expires
- July 31, 2037
- Assignee
- WALTERS GARDENS INC, HANSEN HANS A
- Inventor
- HANSEN HANS A
Abstract
The new and distinct cultivar of perennial Salvia plant named ‘Midnight Model’ characterized by its very large, striking, strong violet flowers with dark green calyxes densely arranged in verticils, compact rounded habit with stiff, upright, branched stems, large, rugose, dark-green foliage, strong vigorous growth rate, and winter-hardy.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
It is claimed: 1. The new and distinct perennial Salvia plant named ‘Midnight Model’ as herein described and illustrated useful for landscaping as a specimen plant, en masse or as a cut flower.
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