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US Plant Patent PP16742

Orange Marmalade

Hosta plant named ‘Orange Marmalade’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired December 28, 2024. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on December 2, 2023. This patent earned 392 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP16742, the photograph of Orange Marmalade printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP16742, 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
PP16742
Filed
December 2, 2003
Granted
July 4, 2006
Expires
December 28, 2024
Assignee
SOLBERG ROBERT M
Inventor
SOLBERG ROBERT M

Abstract

A distinct cultivar of Hosta plant named ‘Orange Marmalade’, characterized by its medium sized, puckered broadly ovate variegated leaves of moderate substance, said leaves emerging yellow centered with an irregular blue-green margin and having additional streaks of yellow or greenish yellow between the margin and leaf center with the center of leaves becoming light yellow or near white; and light lavender flowers positioned on straight scapes in midsummer.

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, ‘Orange Marmalade’, as illustrated and described.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP16742 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.