US Plant Patent PP17248

Ingwhit

New Guinea Impatiens plant named ‘Ingwhit’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired September 12, 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 4 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

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The record

Patent number: PP17248
Filed: September 8, 2005
Granted: November 28, 2006
Expires: September 12, 2025
Assignee: SYNGENTA SEEDS BV
Inventor: SANDERS MONICA MARIA ADELHEID

Abstract

A new and distinct cultivar of New Guinea Impatiens plant characterized by its large white colored flowers, early flowering, good heat tolerance, nice rounded 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 ‘Ingwhit’, as substantially illustrated and described herein.

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