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US Plant Patent PP35524

My Fair Lady

Hosta plant named ‘My Fair Lady’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends March 14, 2043.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on November 1, 2042. This patent earned 133 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP35524, the photograph of My Fair Lady printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP35524, 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
PP35524
Filed
November 1, 2022
Granted
December 5, 2023
Expires
March 14, 2043
Assignee
WALTERS GARDENS INC, HANSEN HANS A
Inventor
HANSEN HANS A

Abstract

A new and distinct Hosta plant named ‘My Fair Lady’ producing medium-sized broadly horizontal mounds of basal, ovate to broadly ovate leaves with acute apices, cordate bases and flat margins. The leaves are variegated having dark green margins and creamy-yellow centers with intermediate color separation between the margin and center of variably large segments of several shades of chartreuse. The campanulate flowers beginning in mid-July are very pale lavender with white edges appearing on glaucous, light-green scapes. ‘My Fair Lady’ is useful in the landscape, as a container plant, a specimen or en masse.

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

It is claimed: 1. A new and distinct Hosta plant named ‘My Fair Lady’ as herein described and illustrated.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP35524 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.