US 12,437,676 B2
Plant label and tag and methods of making and using
John Anthony Cook, Comstock Park, MI (US)
Assigned to Great Lakes Label, LLC, Comstock Park, MI (US)
Filed by Great Lakes Label, LLC, Comstock Park, MI (US)
Filed on Dec. 6, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/530,707.
Application 18/530,707 is a division of application No. 17/287,672, granted, now 11,862,046, previously published as PCT/US2019/058089, filed on Oct. 25, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/769,914, filed on Nov. 20, 2018.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/750,850, filed on Oct. 26, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2024/0420599 A1, Dec. 19, 2024
Int. Cl. G09F 3/20 (2006.01); G09F 3/00 (2006.01); G09F 3/02 (2006.01)
CPC G09F 3/206 (2013.01) [G09F 3/0297 (2013.01); G09F 2003/0239 (2013.01); G09F 2003/0241 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of making a label for a growing plant, the method comprising:
providing a sheet having a substrate layer, a pressure sensitive permanent adhesive layer on the substrate layer, and a release liner on the permanent adhesive layer;
printing indicia related to a growing plant on the substrate layer to form a printed substrate layer, wherein the printing indicia is on the substrate layer opposite the permanent adhesive layer;
delaminating the release liner from the permanent adhesive layer;
applying an adhesive deadener to a predetermined portion of the permanent adhesive layer;
relaminating the release liner to the permanent adhesive layer;
cutting only the substrate layer to define a label; and
scoring the label within the cutting to define an identifier portion and a tag portion;
wherein the predetermined portion is entirely within the tag portion, and the tag portion includes a tab with the adhesive deadener between the permanent adhesive layer and the release liner such that the identifier portion is fixable to a plant container and the tag portion is detachable from the identifier portion at the scoring and from the plant container by way of the tab.