US Plant Patent PP16812

Bulk

Hydrangea plant named ‘Bulk’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired April 20, 2025. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on March 31, 2025. This patent earned 20 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP16812, the photograph of Bulk printed in the patent. — Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP16812, 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: PP16812
Filed: March 31, 2005
Granted: July 11, 2006
Expires: April 20, 2025
Assignee: SPRING MEADOW NURSERY INC
Inventor: BULK REIN

Abstract

A new and distinct cultivar of Hydrangea plant named ‘Bulk’, characterized by its upright and somewhat outwardly spreading plant habit; uniform and even growth habit; early and freely flowering habit; large upright flower panicles; and large panicles with white-colored sterile flowers that become red purple in color in the late summer and fall.

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 Hydrangea plant named ‘Bulk’, as illustrated and described.

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