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US Plant Patent PP27736

Meerkat Mob

Sarracenia plant named ‘Meerkat Mob’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends May 20, 2035.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on January 13, 2035. This patent earned 127 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP27736, the photograph of Meerkat Mob printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP27736, 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
PP27736
Filed
January 13, 2015
Granted
February 28, 2017
Expires
May 20, 2035
Assignee
BOOMAN JAMES LAWRENCE, Zantedeschia Lynn Booman
Inventor
BOOMAN JAMES LAWRENCE

Abstract

A new cultivar of Sarracenia plant named ‘Meerkat Mob’ that is characterized by long tubular shaped leaves with a vertical hood extending above the leaf opening, green leaves with red veins and a green peristome that is mottled dark pink on older leaves and a hood with sides that extend 15 to 20 mm. on each side of the leaf opening and lobes that extend downward 5 to 10 mm. below the leaf opening.

Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.

The invention claimed is: 1. A new and distinct variety of Sarracenia plant named ‘Meerkat Mob’ as described and illustrated.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP27736 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.