US Plant Patent PP17003
Kakegawa CE10
Coleus plant named ‘Kakegawa CE10’
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 February 28, 2025. This patent earned 48 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

The record
- Patent number
- PP17003
- Filed
- February 28, 2005
- Granted
- August 15, 2006
- Expires
- April 17, 2025
- Assignee
- SAKATA SEED CORP
- Inventor
- ARITA YO
Abstract
‘Kakegawa CE10’ is a new Coleus cultivar particularly distinguished by having a unique leaf color pattern and a 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 Coleus plant as shown and described herein.
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