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US Plant Patent PP8016

Gold Margin

Hosta plantaginea -- "Gold Margin" variety

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired August 24, 2010. 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.

The record

Patent number
PP8016
Filed
August 24, 1990
Granted
October 27, 1992
Expires
August 24, 2010

Abstract

A new variety of Hosta plastaginea characterized by a gold to lime green margin on a darker green leaf and a thicker, more rigid, and more coriaceous leaf structure, giving the plant a more upright habit than the original species.

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

I claim: 1. The new and unique variety of the plant Hosta plantaginea, substantially as described and illustrated.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP8016 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.