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US Plant Patent PP17327

Imtrared

Impatiens plant named ‘Imtrared’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired November 26, 2025. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on August 16, 2025. This patent earned 102 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP17327, the photograph of Imtrared printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP17327, 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
PP17327
Filed
August 16, 2005
Granted
January 2, 2007
Expires
November 26, 2025
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 medium sized red 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 ‘Imtrared’, as substantially illustrated and described herein.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP17327 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.