US Plant Patent PP17544
Ingwweye
New Guinea Impatiens plant named ‘Ingwweye’
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired January 20, 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 134 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

The record
- Patent number
- PP17544
- Filed
- September 8, 2005
- Granted
- April 3, 2007
- Expires
- January 20, 2026
- Assignee
- SYNGENTA SEEDS BV
- Inventor
- SANDERS MONICA MARIA ADELHEID
Abstract
A new and distinct cultivar of New Guinea Impatiens plant named ‘Ingwweye’ characterized by its large white flowers with red-purple stripe in the middle of the petal, early flowering, dark 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 ‘Ingwweye’, as substantially illustrated and described herein.
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