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US Plant Patent PP34806

Terms of Endearment

Hosta plant named ‘Terms of Endearment’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends March 18, 2042.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on January 10, 2042. This patent earned 67 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP34806, the photograph of Terms of Endearment printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP34806, 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
PP34806
Filed
January 10, 2022
Granted
December 6, 2022
Expires
March 18, 2042
Assignee
WALTERS GARDENS INC, HANSEN HANS A
Inventor
HANSEN HANS A

Abstract

A new and distinct Hosta plant named ‘Terms of Endearment’ of large, arching mounds of broadly ovate, bluish-green leaves having wide chartreuse margins upon emerging and maturing to creamy-yellow margins. The variegation is also attractively displayed with numerous featherings of intermediate colors between the center the leaf margins. The flowers are very pale purple to near white held just above the foliage beginning in late June for about four and a half weeks. ‘Terms of Endearment’ has excellent very large mounded habit and is useful in the landscape, as 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 ‘Terms of Endearment’ as herein described and illustrated.

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