US Plant Patent PP17269

Balcabrose

Calibrachoa plant named ‘Balcabrose’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired January 25, 2026. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on December 12, 2025. This patent earned 44 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

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The record

Patent number: PP17269
Filed: December 12, 2005
Granted: December 12, 2006
Expires: January 25, 2026
Assignee: BALL HORTICULTURAL CO
Inventor: REN JIANPING

Abstract

A new and distinct cultivar of Calibrachoa plant named ‘Balcabrose’ characterized by its rose colored flowers, medium green-colored foliage, good basal branching character; and moderately vigorous, mounded-trailing growth 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 Calibrachoa plant named ‘Balcabrose’, substantially as herein shown and described.

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