US Plant Patent PP16811

Sunbelkuropi

Calibrachoa plant named ‘Sunbelkuropi’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired April 17, 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 20 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

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The record

Patent number: PP16811
Filed: March 28, 2005
Granted: July 11, 2006
Expires: April 17, 2025
Assignee: SUNTORY FLOWERS LTD
Inventor: MURAKAMI YASUYUKI

Abstract

A new and distinct cultivar of Calibrachoa plant named ‘Sunbelkuropi’, characterized by its decumbent and low mounding plant habit; vigorous growth habit; freely branching habit; freely flowering habit; red purple-colored flowers with darker red purple-colored flower throats; and good weather tolerance.

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 named ‘Sunbelkuropi’, as illustrated and described.

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