US Plant Patent PP15686
Kakegawa S72
Calibrachoa plant named ‘Kakegawa S72’
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired May 11, 2024. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on March 15, 2024. This patent earned 57 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

The record
- Patent number
- PP15686
- Filed
- March 15, 2004
- Granted
- March 22, 2005
- Expires
- May 11, 2024
- Assignee
- SAKATA SEED CORP
- Inventor
- BESSHO MASAO; OHGA TOSHIMI
Abstract
‘Kakegawa S72’ is a new variety of Calibrachoa plant. This new variety has dark red petal lobes with darker red petal mid-veins and dark green foliage.
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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