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US Plant Patent PP16217

Hanky Panky

Hosta plant named ‘Hanky Panky’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired February 26, 2025. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on November 23, 2024. This patent earned 95 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP16217, the photograph of Hanky Panky printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP16217, 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
PP16217
Filed
November 23, 2004
Granted
January 24, 2006
Expires
February 26, 2025
Assignee
SHADY OAKS NURSERY LLC
Inventor
HANSEN HANS ANDREW

Abstract

A new cultivar of Hosta hybrid Hosta ‘Hanky Panky’, a sport of Hosta ‘Striptease’, characterized by its unique variegated foliage with spring foliage having dark green centers and light green margins with a stripe of white that occurs at the junction of the center and the margin. The foliage changes in late summer and fall progresses and matures to a pattern having light centers with a deep green area replacing the white stripe area and greyed-yellow margins.

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 ‘Hanky Panky’ as herein illustrated and described.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP16217 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.