US Plant Patent PP17186
Ingorch
New Guinea Impatiens plant named ‘Ingorch’
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired November 11, 2025. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on September 9, 2025. This patent earned 63 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

The record
- Patent number
- PP17186
- Filed
- September 9, 2005
- Granted
- November 7, 2006
- Expires
- November 11, 2025
- Assignee
- SYNGENTA SEEDS BV
- Inventor
- SANDERS MONICA MARIA ADELHEID
Abstract
A new and distinct cultivar of New Guinea Impatiens plant named ‘Ingorch’ characterised by its large light purple flowers, early flowering, bright green foliage, ball shaped growth habit with excellent basal branching and good outdoor 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 ‘Ingorch’, as substantially illustrated and described herein.
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