US Plant Patent PP16546

Big Sunlight

Bidens plant named ‘Big Sunlight’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired March 11, 2025. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on December 24, 2024. This patent earned 77 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

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The record

Patent number: PP16546
Filed: December 24, 2004
Granted: May 16, 2006
Expires: March 11, 2025
Assignee: BULL NORBERT
Inventor: BULL NORBERT

Abstract

A new and distinct cultivar of Bidens plant named ‘Big Sunlight’, characterized by its outwardly spreading to cascading plant habit; freely branching habit; dense and bushy appearance; large inflorescences with five to eight golden yellow-colored ray florets; and freely and continuous flowering habit.

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 Bidens plant named ‘Big Sunlight’, as illustrated and described.

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