US Plant Patent PP16772

Cal Rostar

Calibrachoa plant named ‘Cal Rostar’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired June 19, 2025. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on March 28, 2025. This patent earned 83 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

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The record

Patent number: PP16772
Filed: March 28, 2005
Granted: July 4, 2006
Expires: June 19, 2025
Assignee: GOLDSMITH SEEDS INC
Inventor: PIERCE ROBERT

Abstract

A Calibrachoa cultivar particularly distinguished by flowers with a cream/white background and margins with red-purple petals and veining 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 Calibrachoa plant as shown and described herein.

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