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US Plant Patent PP17093

Atlantis

Hosta plant named ‘Atlantis’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired April 28, 2025. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on April 6, 2025. This patent earned 22 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 2 of US plant patent PP17093, the photograph of Atlantis printed in the patent.
Figure 2 from US Plant Patent PP17093, 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
PP17093
Filed
April 6, 2005
Granted
September 12, 2006
Expires
April 28, 2025
Assignee
AVENT TONY, HANSEN HANS ANDREW
Inventor
HANSEN HANS ANDREW; AVENT TONY

Abstract

A new cultivar of Hosta named ‘Atlantis’, a sport of Hosta ‘Abba Dabba Do’, that is characterized by its unique variegated foliage with green centers and wide yellow-green margins comprising about on third of the leaf area. ‘Atlantis’ is a large Hosta with an upright, mounded habit, a vigorous growth rate, and lavender flowers held on upright scapes in mid summer.

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

1. A new and distinct cultivar of Hosta plant named ‘Atlantis’ as herein illustrated and described.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP17093 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.