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US Plant Patent PP17108

Imtrawhit

Impatiens plant named ‘Imtrawhit’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired August 24, 2025. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on August 17, 2025. This patent earned 7 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP17108, the photograph of Imtrawhit printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP17108, 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
PP17108
Filed
August 17, 2005
Granted
September 19, 2006
Expires
August 24, 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 large white 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 ‘Imtrawhit’, as substantially illustrated and described herein.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP17108 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.