US Plant Patent PP17303

Cal Goldey

Calibrachoa plant named ‘Cal Goldey’

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.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP17303, the photograph of Cal Goldey printed in the patent. — Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP17303, 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: PP17303
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-sized, yellow-orange flowers with a red eye, early and continuous flowering, deep-green foliage with elliptical leaves, medium vigor, a bushy, low spreading to later prostrate or trailing and moderately compact 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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