US Plant Patent PP16530
Calisto
Chrysanthemum plant named ‘Calisto’
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired March 7, 2025. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on December 27, 2024. This patent earned 70 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

The record
- Patent number
- PP16530
- Filed
- December 27, 2004
- Granted
- May 9, 2006
- Expires
- March 7, 2025
- Assignee
- CHRYSANTHEMUM BREEDERS ASS NV
- Inventor
- BOEDER MARK ROLAND
Abstract
A chrysanthemum plant named ‘Calisto’ characterized by its medium sized blooms with pink ray florets and prolific branching; natural season flower date August 9-16 (week 33); blooming for a period of 5 weeks.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
1. A new and distinct variety of chrysanthemum plant as described and illustrated.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP16530 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.