US Plant Patent PP15961

Grand marquee

Hosta plant named ‘Grand marquee’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired July 12, 2024. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on March 25, 2024. This patent earned 109 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

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The record

Patent number: PP15961
Filed: March 25, 2004
Granted: September 13, 2005
Expires: July 12, 2024
Assignee: SUNNY BORDER NURSERIES INC
Inventor: LAVIANA MARC R

Abstract

A new cultivar of hybrid Hosta , ‘Grand Marquee’, characterized by its unique variegated foliage with wide blue-green margins and creamy white centers, its upright, mounding and relatively compact plant habit, and pale lavender flowers positioned above the foliage on strong and erect flower scapes.

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 ‘Grand Marquee’ as herein illustrated and described.

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