US Plant Patent PP17276
Ingborg
New Guinea Impatiens plant named ‘Ingborg’
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired October 1, 2025. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on September 8, 2025. This patent earned 23 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

The record
- Patent number
- PP17276
- Filed
- September 8, 2005
- Granted
- December 12, 2006
- Expires
- October 1, 2025
- Assignee
- SYNGENTA SEEDS BV
- Inventor
- SANDERS MONICA MARIA ADELHEID
Abstract
A new and distinct cultivar of New Guinea Impatiens plant named ‘Ingborg’ characterized by its large flowers, non fading orange flowers, early flowering, dark green foliage, ball shaped growth habit with excellent basal branching and good vigor.
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 New Guinea Impatiens plant named ‘Ingborg’, as substantially illustrated and described herein.
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