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US Plant Patent PP19835

Silk Road

Hosta plant named ‘Silk Road’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends February 14, 2028.

No term adjustment or disclaimer is recorded against this patent, so this is the full statutory term — twenty years from the filing date.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP19835, the photograph of Silk Road printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP19835, 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
PP19835
Filed
February 14, 2008
Granted
March 17, 2009
Expires
February 14, 2028
Assignee
SHADY OAKS NURSERY LLC
Inventor
HANSEN HANS ANDREW

Abstract

A new cultivar of Hosta named ‘Silk Road’, a chimeral mutation of Hosta ‘Silk Kimono’, characterized by its unique variegated foliage with deep green centers and wide creamy yellow to creamy white margins comprising about one half of the leaf area. ‘Silk Road’ has an upright plant habit of large broadly ovate leaves held horizontally on erect petioles and blooms with pale lavender flowers held on erect flower 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 ‘Silk road’ as herein illustrated and described.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP19835 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.