US Plant Patent PP37343
Sunny Disposition
Heliopsis plant named ‘Sunny Disposition’
UNDER PATENT
Still under patent. Protection ends November 13, 2045.
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
- PP37343
- Filed
- November 13, 2025
- Granted
- March 24, 2026
- Expires
- November 13, 2045
- Assignee
- WALTERS GARDENS INC, HANSEN HANS A
- Inventor
- HANSEN HANS A
Abstract
The new and distinct hardy perennial Heliopsis plant named ‘Sunny Disposition’ with dense, rounded, extensively-branched habit, strong, upright stems that resist lodging. A foliage is broadly ovate to narrowly deltoid medium green surrounding veins with a variable amount of white between the veins. Freely-flowering semi-double inflorescences in a capitulum with multiple rows of golden-yellow, overlapping, ray florets and disk florets near the center, beginning in early July and continuing for about 6 to eight weeks. The new plant is useful in the landscape en masse, as an accent, in containers or as cut flowers.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1 . A new and distinct hardy perennial Heliopsis plant named ‘Sunny Disposition’ substantially as herein described and illustrated.
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