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US Plant Patent PP17308

Ingbwit

New Guinea Impatiens plant named ‘Ingbwit’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired October 10, 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 32 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP17308, the photograph of Ingbwit printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP17308, 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
PP17308
Filed
September 8, 2005
Granted
December 26, 2006
Expires
October 10, 2025
Inventor
SANDERS MONICA MARIA ADELHEID

Abstract

A new and distinct cultivar of New Guinea Impatiens plant named ‘Ingbwit’ characterized by its large, rounded, white flowers, early flowering, green foliage, ball shaped growth habit with good 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 ‘Ingbwit’, as substantially illustrated and described herein.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP17308 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.