US Plant Patent PP17189
Imtraoran
Impatiens plant named ‘Imtraoran’
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired October 3, 2025. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on August 18, 2025. This patent earned 46 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

The record
- Patent number
- PP17189
- Filed
- August 18, 2005
- Granted
- November 7, 2006
- Expires
- October 3, 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 very large orange 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 ‘Imtraoran’, as substantially illustrated and described herein.
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