US Plant Patent PP17792

Classica

Carnation plant named ‘Classica’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired September 2, 2025. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on March 5, 2025. This patent earned 181 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

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The record

Patent number: PP17792
Filed: March 5, 2005
Granted: June 12, 2007
Expires: September 2, 2025
Assignee: KOOY & ZONEN B V P
Inventor: HEIL JOHAN EDWIN

Abstract

A new and distinct cultivar of Carnation plant named ‘Classica’, characterized by its compact, upright and rounded plant habit; freely basal branching habit; freely flowering habit; and red purple-colored flowers.

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 Carnation plant named ‘Classica’, as illustrated and described.

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