US Plant Patent PP17304

Cal Corink

Calibrachoa plant named ‘Cal Corink’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired April 18, 2026. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on February 13, 2026. This patent earned 64 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

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The record

Patent number: PP17304
Filed: February 13, 2006
Granted: December 26, 2006
Expires: April 18, 2026
Assignee: GOLDSMITH SEEDS INC
Inventor: PIERCE ROBERT OSTEEN

Abstract

A new Calibrachoa plant particularly distinguished by medium to large coral-pink flowers with red markings, early and continuous flowering, medium green foliage with small lanceolate leaves, and a moderately-vigorous, round, bushy, medium tight plant habit, and an initially spreading and later prostrate or trailing plant habit, is disclosed.

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 as shown and described herein.

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