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US Plant Patent PP16863

Sunbidesupa

Bidens plant named ‘Sunbidesupa’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired April 12, 2024. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on March 26, 2024. This patent earned 17 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP16863, the photograph of Sunbidesupa printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP16863, 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
PP16863
Filed
March 26, 2004
Granted
July 25, 2006
Expires
April 12, 2024
Assignee
SUNTORY FLOWERS LTD
Inventor
MISATO TOMOYA; MIYAZAKI KIYOSHI

Abstract

Disclosed herein is a new and distinct variety of Bidens ferulifolia, named ‘Sunbidesupa’ having a very compact and mounding growth habit with dense yellow green foliage. ‘Sunbidesupa’ has freely branching, stiff stems and very short internodes, dense yellow green foliage, and large, vivid-yellow inflorescences, with typically 8 ray florets in a whorl per inflorescence, on short peduncles. The plant exhibits good resistance to heat, cold, disease and pests.

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

1. A new and distinct variety of Bidens ferulifolia plant named ‘Sunbidesupa’, substantially as herein illustrated and described.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP16863 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.