US Plant Patent PP17138

Kakegawa S68

Calibrachoa plant named ‘Kakegawa S68’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired August 18, 2025. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on February 7, 2025. This patent earned 192 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

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The record

Patent number: PP17138
Filed: February 7, 2005
Granted: October 10, 2006
Expires: August 18, 2025
Assignee: SAKATA SEED CORP
Inventor: UI AKINOBU; OHGA TOSHIMI

Abstract

‘Kakegawa S68’ is a new Calibrachoa cultivar particularly distinguished by having a light rose flower color with rose veins and a semi-creeping growth habit.

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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