Skip to content
The Patent Garden

US Plant Patent PP17883

Cal Depyel

Calibrachoa plant named ‘Cal Depyel’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired February 13, 2026. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

No term adjustment or disclaimer is recorded against this patent, so this is the full statutory term — twenty years from the filing date.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP17883, the photograph of Cal Depyel printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP17883, 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
PP17883
Filed
February 13, 2006
Granted
July 24, 2007
Expires
February 13, 2026
Inventor
PIERCE ROBERT OSTEEN

Abstract

A new Calibrachoa plant particularly distinguished by medium-sized, deep-yellow flowers, an early to moderately-early and continuous flowering response, grass-green to deep-green, glossy foliage with lanceolate leaves, moderately vigorous growth, a medium-sized and spreading to prostrate plant habit, with strong branches, 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.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP17883 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.