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US Plant Patent PP16435

Time Tunnel

Hosta plant named ‘Time Tunnel’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired April 3, 2025. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on December 8, 2024. This patent earned 116 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 2 of US plant patent PP16435, the photograph of Time Tunnel printed in the patent.
Figure 2 from US Plant Patent PP16435, 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
PP16435
Filed
December 8, 2004
Granted
April 11, 2006
Expires
April 3, 2025
Assignee
SUNNY BORDER NURSERIES INC
Inventor
LAVIANA MARC R

Abstract

A new cultivar of Hosta sieboldiana , ‘Time Tunnel’, characterized by its variegated foliage of green centers and wide margins that emerge chartreuse, change to a bright gold, and mature to a creamy gold color. The margins of the foliage of ‘Time Tunnel’ are much wider than its parent plant, ‘Frances Williams’, comprising about 50% of the leaf area.

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 ‘Time Tunnel’ as herein illustrated and described.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP16435 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.