# US 2023/0274666 A9 · Plant label and tag and methods of making and using > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 2023/0274666 A9 - Document ID: US20230274666A9 - Status: Published application - Kind: A9 - Application number: 17/287,672 - Filed: 2019-10-25 - Published: 2023-08-31 - Earliest claimed: 2018-10-26 - Assignees: Great Lakes Label, LLC - Applicants: Great Lakes Label, LLC - Inventors: John Anthony Cook - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20230274666A9 ## CPC - G09F 3/206: {specially adapted for marking or identifying plants} - C09J 7/38: Pressure-sensitive adhesives [PSA] - G09F 3/02: Forms or constructions (layered products B32B) - G09F 3/0297: {including a machine-readable marking, e.g. a bar code (digitally marked record carriers in general G06K19/00)} - B41J 3/4075: {Tape printers; Label printers} - C09J 2203/334: as a label - C09J 2301/204: the adhesive coating being discontinuous - C09J 2423/046: in the substrate - G09F 2003/0239: {Permanent adhesive} - G09F 2003/0241: {Repositionable or pressure sensitive adhesive} - G09F: DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; LABELS OR NAME-PLATES; SEALS - C09J: ADHESIVES; NON-MECHANICAL ASPECTS OF ADHESIVE PROCESSES IN GENERAL; ADHESIVE PROCESSES NOT PROVIDED FOR ELSEWHERE; USE OF MATERIALS AS ADHESIVES (preparation of glue or gelatine C09H) - B41J: TYPEWRITERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS, i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS ## Abstract A plant label has a substrate and a permanent adhesive layer on a release liner. An identifier portion of the substrate and a tag portion of the substrate are defined by a detach line that enables the tag portion to be detached from the identifier portion. The tag portion has an adhesive deadener on the permanent adhesive layer, a strip of the permanent adhesive layer of the detachable portion free of adhesive deadener, and a tab having only adhesive deadener on the permanent adhesive layer that enables the tag portion to be detached from the identifier portion and from a container to which the label is affixed. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A method of making a label for a growing plant, the method comprising: providing a sheet having a substrate layer, a permanent adhesive layer on the substrate layer, and a release liner on 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 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. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1 further comprising printing indicia related to a growing plant on the substrate layer to form a printed substrate layer, wherein the printing is on the substrate layer opposite the pressure sensitive adhesive layer. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1 wherein the printing is on the permanent adhesive layer. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1 wherein the printing is on both the permanent adhesive layer and the substrate layer opposite the permanent adhesive layer. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1 wherein the detachable portion includes a strip of the permanent adhesive layer without adhesive deadener away from the tab. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1 further comprising rolling the sheet after the cutting and scoring steps. ### Claim 7 (depends on 6) The method of claim 6 comprising unrolling the sheet, delaminating the release liner from the sheet, and applying the label from the sheet to a plant container. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1 wherein the substrate layer is polyethylene. ### Claim 9 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1 wherein the permanent adhesive layer is in a range of 4-10 mm thick. ### Claim 10 A growing plant label comprising: a substrate having a first surface and an opposed second surface; a pressure sensitive adhesive layer on the second surface; a fixable portion of the substrate and a detachable portion of the substrate defined by a score line that enables the detachable portion to be detached from the fixable portion; and an adhesive deadener on the pressure sensitive adhesive layer of the detachable portion wherein a strip of the pressure sensitive adhesive layer of the detachable portion is free of adhesive deadener; wherein the detachable portion includes a tab having only adhesive deadener on the pressure sensitive adhesive layer. ### Claim 11 (depends on 10) The growing plant label of claim 10 further comprising printed indicia on at least one of the first or second surfaces. ### Claim 12 (depends on 10) The growing plant label of claim 10 further comprising printed indicia on the first surface. ### Claim 13 (depends on 12) The growing plant label of claim 12 further comprising printed indicia on the second surface only on the detachable portion. ### Claim 14 (depends on 10) The growing plant label of claim 10 wherein the tab is wedge-shaped. ### Claim 15 (depends on 10) The growing plant label of claim 10 further comprising a release liner on the pressure sensitive adhesive layer.