US Plant Patent PP20862

Cat and Mouse

Hosta plant names ‘Cat and Mouse’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends December 17, 2028.

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: PP20862
Filed: December 17, 2008
Granted: March 23, 2010
Expires: December 17, 2028
Assignee: SHADY OAKS NURSERY LLC
Inventor: HANSEN HANS ANDREW

Abstract

A new cultivar of hybrid Hosta named ‘Cat and Mouse’, characterized by its miniature plant size, its mounded plant habit, its round, glaucous leaves that are variegated with yellow-green center with blue-green margins in spring with the centers turning brighter and the margins turning greener in summer and its white flowers striped with lavender emerging in early summer on erect flower scapes.

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 ‘Cat and Mouse’ as herein illustrated and described.

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