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US Plant Patent PP17598

Ingrepu

New Guinea Impatiens plant named ‘Ingrepu’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired February 3, 2026. 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 148 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP17598, the photograph of Ingrepu printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP17598, 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
PP17598
Filed
September 8, 2005
Granted
April 17, 2007
Expires
February 3, 2026
Inventor
SANDERS MONICA MARIA ADELHEID

Abstract

A new and distinct cultivar of New Guinea Impatiens plant named ‘Ingrepu’ characterised by its large pink flowers with small red eye, early flowering, dark foliage, ball shaped growth habit with good basal branching, strong growing 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 ‘Ingrepu’, as substantially illustrated and described herein.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP17598 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.