US Plant Patent PP18061

Stitch in Time

Hosta plant named ‘Stitch in Time’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired January 17, 2026. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

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

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The record

Patent number: PP18061
Filed: January 17, 2006
Granted: September 18, 2007
Expires: January 17, 2026
Assignee: MORTKO ROBERT A
Inventor: MORTKO ROBERT A

Abstract

A new and distinct cultivar of Hosta named ‘Stitch in Time’, characterized by its wide yellow colored leaf margins and its unique gathering and stitching where the yellow leaf margin tissue meets the dark green center tissue.

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 ‘Stitch in Time’ as illustrated and described herein.

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