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US Plant Patent PP14232

Thunderbolt

Hosta plant named ‘Thunderbolt’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired December 11, 2021. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on October 29, 2021. This patent earned 43 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP14232, the photograph of Thunderbolt printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP14232, 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
PP14232
Filed
October 29, 2001
Granted
October 14, 2003
Expires
December 11, 2021
Assignee
HAWKSRIDGE FARMS INC
Inventor
CROWDER ALLEN RICK

Abstract

A new cultivar of Hosta plant named ‘Thunderbolt’ that is characterized by vigor, white flowers in late spring and large variegated blue-green leaves with centers that change in color from golden to cream-white as the plant matures. In combination these traits set ‘Thunderbolt’ apart from all other existing varieties of Hosta known to the inventor.

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

I claim: 1. A new and distinct cultivar of Hosta plant named ‘Thunderbolt’ as herein described and illustrated.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP14232 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.