US Plant Patent PP17374

Balcabscar

Calibrachoa plant named ‘Balcabscar’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired March 8, 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 86 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

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The record

Patent number: PP17374
Filed: December 12, 2005
Granted: January 23, 2007
Expires: March 8, 2026
Assignee: BALL HORTICULTURAL CO
Inventor: REN JIANPING

Abstract

A new and distinct cultivar of Calibrachoa plant named ‘Balcabscar’ characterized by its scarlet red-colored flowers, medium green-colored foliage, floriferousness, 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 ‘Balcabscar’, substantially as herein shown and described.

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