US Plant Patent PP17266

Imtralila

Impatiens plant named ‘Imtralila’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired November 14, 2025. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on August 15, 2025. This patent earned 91 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP17266, the photograph of Imtralila printed in the patent. — Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP17266, reproduced as printed. Photographs in a plant patent are taken by the applicant. Reproduction of the patent document is permitted; the image is shown whole and uncropped for that reason.

The record

Patent number: PP17266
Filed: August 15, 2005
Granted: December 12, 2006
Expires: November 14, 2025
Assignee: SYNGENTA SEEDS BV
Inventor: SANDERS MONICA MARIA ADELHEID

Abstract

A new Impatiens plant, characterized particularly as to novelty by a flat and strong outward spreading growth habit, freely branching with branches that tend to grow horizontally, resulting in a big and very floriferous plant with large lilac 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 Impatiens plant named ‘Imtralila’, as substantially illustrated and described herein.

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