US Plant Patent PP17256

Cal Cremey

Calibrachoa plant named ‘Cal Cremey’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired March 28, 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 43 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

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The record

Patent number: PP17256
Filed: February 13, 2006
Granted: December 5, 2006
Expires: March 28, 2026
Assignee: GOLDSMITH SEEDS INC
Inventor: PIERCE ROBERT OSTEEN

Abstract

A new Calibrachoa plant particularly distinguished by medium, cream-white flowers with red markings and yellow throats, early and continuous flowering, medium green foliage with lanceolate leaves, a medium size, medium vigor, bushy, and a spreading to semi-trailing plant habit with good branching ability, 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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