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US Plant Patent PP35810

Big Green Tractor

Ligularia plant named ‘Big Green Tractor’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends April 26, 2043.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on January 26, 2043. This patent earned 90 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP35810, the photograph of Big Green Tractor printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP35810, 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
PP35810
Filed
January 26, 2023
Granted
May 14, 2024
Expires
April 26, 2043
Assignee
WALTERS GARDENS INC, HANSEN HANS A
Inventor
HANSEN HANS A

Abstract

The new and distinct cultivar of ornamental Goldenray plant, Ligularia ‘Big Green Tractor’, with a large mounded habit, vertical peduncle of dense clusters of large, upright, capitate, golden flowers on branched chartreuse panicles. The huge fine-textured leaves are rounded, palmately-compound, with numerous deeply-dissected lobes that have coarsely serrated and ciliolate margins. Flowering begins in late summer and lasts for about three weeks.

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

The invention claimed is: 1. A new and distinct cultivar of ornamental Goldenray, Ligularia plant named ‘Big Green Tractor’, as herein described and illustrated, suitable in the landscape for foliage and flower use.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP35810 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.